🎇DELIGHTED to release the 100th instalment in our🦋#ScienceOfDemocracy series, led by indefatigable The Butterfly Collector 🦋 🎆 The series has published pieces by 106 authors in 27 countries worldwide, as far afield as 🇨🇳🇯🇵🇭🇰🇸🇬🇹🇼🇬🇭🇮🇷🇰🇪 & 🇳🇬 🥂Here's to the next💯 theloop.ecpr.eu/?s=%F0%9F%A6%8B

This is the kind of political theory that speaks to me. Joan Tronto on solidarity and the harms of privileged irresponsibility. #APSA2023 docs.google.com/document/d/129…

📣 Introducing the Sciences of the Democracies! 👥 Initiated by The Butterfly Collector 🦋, founder of The Loop. A Political Science Blog from @ECPR 🦋#ScienceOfDemocracy series, this 🆕 Research Network aims to explore the meanings of democracy & develop a specialised terminology 👉 Join FREE ecpr.eu/Groups

🖥️ The Loop launched on 12 October 2020 🏆 In spring 2021 our team discussed establishing an annual prize for the strongest blog piece published during a calendar year 🧵Here, Managing Ed Kate Hawkins tells the story of the creation of our first-ever award bit.ly/3qASqSI

tonight in Sydney Lea Ypi making a case for the ‘necessary but dangerous’ notion of political progress as learning from past mistakes, refining the norms of justice, acting as if the present harbours a better future….

💡 Join our new Research Network on 'The Sciences of the Democracies' founded by The Butterfly Collector 🦋 🦋 🤩 Fun Fact: This group is developing the world's first open-access, AI-supported, digital encyclopaedia of the "democracies" 💥 Find out more 👉 ecpr.eu/Group/sciences…

my thoughts on the blind spots of ‘deliberative democracy’ thinking - in under 800 words!

"Herman Melville figures a ruthless #democracy of whales – a cetocracy. This democracy acts collectively and decisively while under threat, choosing to transform themselves in order to live rather than to kill." - @GreimanJennifer World and Science The Dark Horse Morigenos

🦋 No.105 Examining the first 99 entries in our #ScienceOfDemocracy series, Alex Prior identifies asymmetry between references to people #demos and power #kratos. He calls for increased attention to power, in the sense of its ability to effect change bit.ly/3PCqIxo

Something special is coming for someone special this December 1. The journal, Democratic Theory, has established an international prize in democratic theory to celebrate its 10th year of publication. Democratic Theory Berghahn Books

Our beautiful special issue "Democratic Self-transformations: Identity, Performance, and the Politics of Becoming", edited with the amazing Hans Asenbaum is out in Democratic Theory! Thanks The Butterfly Collector 🦋 @BeausoleilEmily and our stellar contributors! berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

Check out the new OA special issue of Democratic Theory Berghahn Books edited by Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky & me. ✨DEMOCRATIC SELF-TRANSFORMATIONS✨ Here's a thread on the stellar contributions. We'll add one article per day. 👉berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/… DelDemUCan @sociologyofdemo 🧵1/10

earlier today in Sydney: a great pleasure to meet my distinguished colleague Brigitte Geisel and to talk about the gathering gloom in German politics, democratic innovations, and why in German universities speaking against Israeli genocide risks losing your job…

Taking our discussions about ✨Democratic Self-transformations✨ forward at #PSA24 with the wonderful amanda machin @profmoyalloyd and Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky 📖🔓Check out the open access special issue Democratic Theory berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

We are looking for a research assistant (Pre-doc) to support a Horizon project on inclusive, intersectional participation. This is a fantastic opportunity for a PhD student working on #participatory or #deliberative dem. Deadline 15/04. More details below ⬇️

Expert, lay & marginalized peoples have ≠ #PerceptionsofDemocracy says International IDEA survey. Who is ‘right’? The Butterfly Collector 🦋 of University of Canberra 👀 at #policy implications, missing voices in democracy assessments & whether we need to rethink ‘expertise’ 🤔👉 bit.ly/3R3Ahai

"Our selves are characterized by inner multiplicity", write Hans Asenbaum and Taina Meriluoto is @MeriTaina on BlueSky. Read their work to journey from the politics of presence to the politics of becoming. berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

"Debates in democratic theory acknowledge that the identities of democratic subjects are not fixed." Read more in open access from Ricardo Mendonça and Ângela Marques. berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/…

The latest Open Access issue of Democratic Theory has been published! View the Table of Contents and more for Volume 11, Issue 1 here: conta.cc/4bZfa0g Democratic Theory @BeausoleilEmily

We are delighted to celebrate this news and our partnership with Cambridge University Press. Democratic Theory is fully open access, no APC, and returns to accepting standalone paper submissions after several years of only considering special issues. cambridge.org/core/journals/…