A PEGS Reader

Recent and Recommended Books

Alonso, Sonia, John Keane and Wolgang Merkel eds., The Future of Representative Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Balfour, Lawrie. Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W. E. B. Du Bois. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Balkin, Jack. Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Basu, Kaushik. Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Calhoun, Emily. Losing Twice: Harms of Indifference in the Supreme Court. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Clemens, Elisabeth and Doug Guthrie. Politics and Partnerships: The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2010.

Dunn, Charles. The Future of Religion in American Politics. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2009.

Dryzek, John. Foundations and Frontiers of Democratic Governance. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Eisgruber, Christopher and Lawrence Sager. Religious Freedom and the Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Fishkin, James. When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Frank, Jason. Constituent Moments: Enacting the People in Postrevolutionary America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books, 2009.

Gastil, John, E. Pierre Dees, Philip J. Weiser, and Cindy Simmons. The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic Engagement and Political Participation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Green, Jeffrey. The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Habermas, Jurgen, Judith Butler, Charles Taylor, and Cornel West. The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011.

Hirschl, Ran. Constitutional Theocracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Kane, John, Haig Patapan, and Paul 't Hart. Dispersed Democratic Leadership: Origins, Dynamics, and Implications. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Kleinerman, Benjamin. The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Mazzini, Giuseppe, Stefano Recchia and Nadia Urbinati, eds. A Cosmopolitan of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini's Writings on Democracy, Nation Building, and International Relations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

McCormick, John. Machiavellian Democracy. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Posner, Eric and Adrian Vermeule. The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Quong, Jonathan. Liberalism Without Perfection. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Rana, Aziz. The Two Faces of American Freedom. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Rasmussen, Dennis. The Problems and Promise of Commercial Society: Adam Smith's Response to Rousseau. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008.

Ringen, Stein. What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Shapiro, Ian. The Real World of Democratic Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011.

Smith, Steven. The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Stears, Marc. Demanding Democracy: American Radicals in Search of a New Politics. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Stout, Jeffrey. Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Sunstein, Cass. A Constitution of Many Minds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Tulis, Jeffrey and Stephen Macedo, eds. The Limits of Constitutional Democracy. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.

Recent and Recommended Articles

Balkin, Jack and Sanford Levinson. "Constitutional Dictatorship: Its Dangers and Its Design." Minnesota Law Review, 94 (2010): 1789-1866.

Barker, Derek. "The Colonization of Civil Society," Kettering Review 28:1 (Fall 2010): 8-18.

Blau, Adrian. "Rationality and Deliberative Democracy: A Constructive Critique of John Dryzek's Democratic Theory." Contemporary Political Theory 10 (2011): 37-57.

Dimova-Cookson, Maria. "Republicanism, Philosophy of Freedom and the History of Ideas: An Interview with Philip Pettit." Contemporary Political Theory 9:4 (November 2010): 477-89.

Disch, Lisa. "Toward a Mobilization Conception of Political Representation." American Political Science Review 105:1 (2011): 100-14.

Dryzek, John. "Rhetoric in Democracy: A Systematic Appreciation." Political Theory 38 (2010): 319-39.

Etzioni, Amitai. "Is Transparency the Best Disinfectant?" Journal of Political Philosophy 18:4 (December 2010): 389-404.

Ralston, Shane. "Dewey's Theory of Moral (and Political) Deliberation Unfiltered." Education and...