At Yale ISPS, we are lucky to have a great communications officer. He recently interviewed me about my just-released book on Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

How does emotion and identity influence political judgement? Our conference, organized by Hélène Landemore and Theophile Penigaud delved into the scholarship. bit.ly/3V6kokC Christopher H. Achen Dimitri Courant Amanda Weiss @Antolw @LalaHMur @devarashida Bruce Ackerman

A lovely write-up of some of what was said during the conference "Deliberative Democracy with a Passion" that Theophile Penigaud and I organized for the #democraticinnovations program at Yale ISPS isps.yale.edu/news/blog/2024…

Can mass democracy really be deliberative? Parkinson, Núria Franco Guillén & De Laile examine linguistic data on the Scottish #indyref to show the answer is yes: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… (OPEN ACCESS) #PolStudiesUKGE 6/27 Political Studies Association @SAGECQPolitics Department of Politics and International Relations #freeaccess

Hot off the press! 📰 Eva Schmidt @IfPol_WWU Universität Münster considers the foundational principles of #deliberation and fleshed out epistemic internal exclusion in #deliberative #minipublics using epistemic injustice theory 👉delibdemjournal.org/article/id/149…

New article by Theophile Penigaud discussing social complexity and democratic legitimacy in the context of issues such as climate change: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Européennes 2024: Gauche 31,6% (vs RN 31,4%) 18-24 ans: Gauche 51% (vs RN 25%) 25-34 ans: Gauche 44% (vs RN 30%) Revenus<1250€/mois: Gauche 38% (vs RN 32%) Conclusion 1: la gauche l'emporte massivement chez les jeunes et les plus modestes IPSOS, échantillon représentatif de

Thrilled to announce that I am joining the Yale MacMillan Center as an Associate Research Scholar starting July 1st, 2024! Many thanks to my incredible supervisor Hélène Landemore for her guidance and trust and to my Yale ISPS esteemed colleagues for a wonderful past year.

We still have room for you to join us this Thursday. Don't miss this one!

I was visibly overjoyed to be introduced by one of the political theorists I admire most! The APSA conference was an incredible experience: many thanks to everyone I encountered there and especially to Hélène Landemore for the opportunity to present our paper on such a great panel.

Please join us tomorrow morning, Wednesday, for a breakfast talk with Felipe on "Democratic Transpositions in Latin America: Avoiding Colonization, Embracing Deliberative Innovation." Register to attend: isps.yale.edu/form/rsvp-for-…

A DIFFUSER : "MONTESQUIEU", de Bernard MANIN, paraît ce jeudi 25/09 à l'Avocat du diable (éditions Hermann). Présentation ici : wordpress.com/page/lavocatdu…

Bernard Manin est parti. C'est une perte terrible, immense. Il nous reste ses écrits et son souvenir. "La mort de Bernard Manin, figure majeure de la théorie politique" : lemonde.fr/disparitions/a…

we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878

For those interested in the intersection of Admin Law and Democracy & are Yale Law School on March 28: Stephen Sawyer (AUP Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies) will be launching his new book “Demos Rising” (UCP, 2025) at the Yale European Law Association YLS European Law Association. Commentary by susan rose-ackerman

Delighted to be part of it!

Excited to speak this afternoon at Princeton on Rousseau's Letters Written from the Mountain. Looking forward to the discussion.

💡Dans ce contexte, cette plateforme permet aux citoyens et aux parlementaires de mieux s’approprier les débats qui ont eu lieu lors la #ConventionCitoyenne. Découvrez les travaux de la convention pour mieux connaître les enjeux autour de la fin de vie 👉 ccfindevie.lecese.fr

So sad to hear about the death of Alasdair MacIntyre, someone whose work profoundly inspired me. A giant of contemporary moral philosophy and a powerful exponent of doing philosophy in a way that engages intelligent and interested people way beyond the discipline. RIP.

Hâte de lire ça!