Articles by Tetsuki Tamura

September 20, 2021

🦋 Why the concept of democracy, and data collection, matter

Tetsuki Tamura

Tetsuki Tamura argues we need a better and wider concept of democracy to capture democratic practices in unlikely places, such as the family

Tetsuki Tamura

Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of Law, Nagoya Univerisity

Tetsuki is also an associate at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra.

His fields of expertise include deliberative democracy, radical democracy, and feminism and political theory.

He is particularly interested in how a focus on politics and democracy in the private sphere can transform political science.

Tetsuki's research has been published in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy and the Japanese Political Science Review.

He has published widely in Japanese, including four single-authored and many (co-)edited or co-authored books.

Follow him on Twitter @ttya70

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