Papers

Conflict of Interest in Government: Avoiding Ethical and Conceptual Mistakes

Governance

With Dennis Thompson

Democratic Responsibility in the Digital Public Sphere

Constellations

With Joshua Cohen

Can transparency and accountability programs improve health? Experimental evidence from Indonesia and Tanzania

World Development, Vol. 142

With Jean Arkedis, Jessica Creighton, Akshay Dixit, Stephen Kosack, Dan Levy, Courtney Tolmie

When Deliberation Produces Persuasion Rather Than Polarization

British Journal of Political Science

With Kevin Esterling, Taeku Lee

Four Levels of Power: A Conception to Enable Liberation

Journal of Political Philosophy

A Taxonomy to Engage Patients: Objectives, Design Characteristics and Patient Activation

Catalyst (NEJM)

With Elena Fagotto, Victoria Alsina Burgees

The Crisis of Democracy and the Science of Deliberation

Science, Vol. 363, Issue 6432

With John S. Dryzek, André Bächtiger, Simone Chambers, Joshua Cohen, James N. Druckman, Andrea Felicetti, James S. Fishkin, David M. Farrell, Amy Gutmann, Hélène Landemore, Jane Mansbridge, and others

How Much Disagreement is Good for Democratic Deliberation

Political Communication

With Kevin Esterling, Taeku Lee

Putting the Public Back Into Governance: The Challenges of Citizen Participation and Its Future

Public Administration Review

Does Transparency Improve Governance

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 17

With Stephen Kosack

Targeting Transparency

Science Magazine, Vol. 340, No. 6139

With David Weil, Mary Graham

Infotopia: Unleashing the Power of Democratic Transparency

Politics and Society, Vol. 41

Six Models of Internet+Politics

International Studies Review, Vol. 15

With Jennifer Shkabatur, Hollie Russon Gilman

Continuous Institutional Innovation and the Pragmatic Conception of Democracy

Polity, Vol. 44, No. 4

The Participedia Project: An Introduction

International Journal of Public Management, Vol. 14, No. 3

The Place of Self Interest and the Role of Deliberative Democracy

Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1

With Jane Mansbridge, James Bohman, Simone Chambers, David Estlund, and others

Democratic Theory and Political Science: A Pragmatic Method of Constructive Engagement

American Political Science Review, Vol. 101, No. 3

Varieties of Participation in Complex Governance

Public Administration Review, Vol. 66

Empowered Participation in Minneapolis: The Neighborhood Revitalization Program

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 30, No. 3

With Elena Fagotto

The Effectiveness of Regulatory Disclosure

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 26, No. 1

With Elena Fagotto, Mary Graham, David Weil

Deliberation Before the Revolution: Toward an Ethics of Deliberative Democracy in an Unjust World

Political Theory, Vol. 33, No. 3

Radical Democracy

Swiss Journal of Political Science, Vol. 10, No. 4

With Joshua Cohen

Recipes for Public Spheres: Eight Institutional Design Choices and Their Consequences

Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 11, No. 3

Associations and Democracy: Between Theories, Hopes, and Realities

Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 29

Deliberative Democracy and International Labor Standards

Governance, Vol. 16, No. 1

Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance

Politics and Society, Vol. 29, No. 1

With Erik Olin Wright

Accountable Autonomy: Toward Empowered Deliberation in Chicago Schools and Policing

Politics and Society, Vol. 29, No. 1

After Backyard Environmentalism: Toward a Regime of Performance Based Environmental Regulation

American Behavioral Scientist, Vol. 44, No. 4

With Bradley Karkkainen, Charles Sabel

Reinventing Environmental Regulation From The Grassroots Up

Environmental Management, Vol. 25, No. 2

With Dara O'Rourke

Making Rights Real: Roe's Impact on Abortion Access

Politics and Society, Vol. 21, No. 4

Is Democracy Too Much Trouble in a Pandemic

In Democracy in a Pandemic (University of Westminster Press)

Democracy and the Digital Public Sphere

In Digital Technology & Democratic Theory (University of Chicago Press)

With Joshua Cohen

Saving Democracy From Ourselves: Democracy as a Tragedy of the Commons

In Ideas that Matter (Oxford University Press)

Viral Engagement: Fast, Cheap, and Broad, but Good for Democracy?

In From Voice to Influence (University of Chicago Press)

Technology for Democracy in Development

In Deliberation and Development (World Bank Press)

With Hollie Russon Gilman, Jennifer Shkabatur

The Principle of Affected Interests and Inclusion in Democratic Governance

In Representation: Elections and Beyond (University of Pennsylvania Press)

A Systemic Approach to Deliberative Democracy

In Deliberative Systems (Cambridge University Press)

With Jane Mansbridge, James Bohman, Simone Chambers, and others

Calling Publics into Existence: The Political Arts of Public Management

In Ports in a Storm (Brookings Institution Press)

With Mark H. Moore

Minipublics: Designing Institutions for Effective Deliberation and Accountability

In Accountability Through Public Opinion (World Bank)

Popular Election Monitoring

In Race, Reform, and Regulatory Institutions (Cambridge University Press)

Open Government, Open Society

In Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice (O'Reilly Media)

With David Weil

Empowered Participatory Governance in the United Kingdom?

In Building a Citizen Society (Lawrence and Wishart, Ltd)

With Erik Olin Wright

Citizen Participation in Government Innovations

In Innovations in Government (Brookings Institution Press)

Minipublics: Deliberative Designs and Their Consequences

In Deliberation, Participation, and Democracy (Palgrave MacMillan)

Democracy and the Policy Process

In Oxford Handbook of Public Policy (Oxford University Press)

Le Contre-Pouvoir dans la Démocratie Participative et Délibérative

In Gestion de Proximité et Démocratie Participative (La Découverte)

What Should Be Built at Ground Zero?

In Ethics and Politics, 4th ed. (Thomson-Wadsworth)

With Susan Rosegrant

Future Directions for Public Deliberation

In The Deliberative Democracy Handbook (Josey-Bass)

With John Gastil, Peter Levine

Ecologies of Workforce Development in Milwaukee

In Workforce Development Politics (Temple University Press)

With Scott Zdrazil

Making Social Markets: Dispersed Governance and Corporate Accountability

In Market Based Governance (Brookings Institution Press)

It's the Gap, Stupid

Boston Review

Review of Can Democracy Be Saved by Donna Della Porta

Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 44, No. 1

Reinventing Democracy in Latin America

Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 9, No. 4

Review of Xavier Briggs' Democracy as Problem Solving

City and Community

Deliberation Day by Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin (book review)

Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 24, No. 2

Can Social Movements Save American Democracy?

Boston Review, Vol. 28, No. 1

Why Do Expressive Campaigns Succeed and Fail?

Journal of Political Ecology

A Deeply Democratic Developmental State

Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 30, No. 1

Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities

Kettering Foundation

With Elena Fagotto

The Difference Deliberation Makes: CaliforniaSpeaks Statewide Conversations on Health Care Reform

Report

With Taeku Lee

Ratcheting Labor Standards: Regulation for Continuous Improvement in the Global Workplace

World Bank Group Social Protection Unit Discussion Paper

With Dara O'Rourke, Charles Sabel

How Artificial Intelligence Could Take Over Elections — and Undermine Democracy

The Conversation

With Larry Lessig

Progress for People of Color Doesn't Come at White Folks' Expense

Boston Review (podcast)

With Heather McGhee

Biden Must Put Democracy First

Boston Review

How to determine if a business is COVID-19 safe? Create a restaurant-style grading system

Los Angeles Times

COVID-19 Requires More Democracy, Not Less

Boston Review

A New Civic Federalism

Politico

The Five Things We Need to Know to Fight Coronavirus

Politico

One thing to change: Everyone should vote

Harvard Gazette

Let's vote, party and celebrate American democracy on a new holiday called Citizen Day

USA Today

With Jane Mansbridge

Our desperate need to save US democracy from ourselves

The Hill

A Tea Party for Obama

The American Prospect

Defining Transparency & Risks of Open Government

NextGov (interview)

A Citizen Congress

Boston Globe

Fixing the Misinformation Age

Boston Globe

With David Weil

Let Citizen Assemblies Draw Districts

Boston Review, Vol. 31, No. 5

Coming to the Rescue

Boston Globe Magazine

Stepping Up Labor Standards

Boston Review, Vol. 26, No. 1

With Dara O'Rourke, Charles Sabel

Beyond Backyard Environmentalism

Boston Review (forum)

With Charles Sabel, Bradley Karkkainen