Democratic Authority: Principles and Practices

Abstract

This panel will feature recent normative work on the problem of democratic authority. We explore how different justifications of democracy (e.g., epistemic, expressive, economic) inform how we think about democratic authority and legitimacy in specific political contexts, and examine how different conceptual models of democracy (e.g., liquid, agonistic) can bear on strategies for (re)imagining national, local, and global institutions and policies. Panel presentations will pay particular attention to how democratic authority can be instantiated through “thick populist” (Albert Dzur) practices that enhance direct citizen participation – in particular, citizen juries and assemblies, as well as other civic engagement institutional innovations.

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