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Inequality and Democracy. Feminist Democratic Design Thinking

Democracy
Democratisation
Political Methodology
Political Theory
Feminism
Karen Celis
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Karen Celis
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Sarah Childs
University of Edinburgh
Building Feminist Democratic Polities: The Potential of Democratic Design.

Abstract

Feminist Democratic Design (FDD) places a commitment to the ending of inequality at the heart of democratic design. When democratic designers ‘think about and plan for democracy’ as instructed by Michael Saward in Democratic Design (2021, xii), we contend they will fail without a concomitant commitment to making others equal in the tradition of Anne Phillips’ Unconditional Equals (2021). This is especially so in contexts where attacks on liberal democracy are newly entwined with attacks on equality