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October 25, 2021

🦋 A night at the museum of democracy

André Bächtiger

Adopting the perspective of a museum curator, we can spot the pitfalls of Jean-Paul Gagnon’s proposal to build a data mountain on democracy, argues André Bächtiger. But this perspective also helps identify how we should construct the museum to further our understanding of the concept

October 21, 2021

🦋 Democracy – what a lovely mess!

Taina Meriluoto

Taina Meriluoto welcomes Jean-Paul Gagnon’s project to build a democracy data mountain. But she remains troubled by methodological issues pertaining to context, values and the everyday world. If we want to advance towards the total texture of democracy, these are problems we have to resolve

October 19, 2021

🦋 Lost in the arcades of democracy

Christopher Hobson

Christopher Hobson questions the value of Jean-Paul Gagnon’s proposal to build a democracy data mountain. The danger is getting lost digging up forgotten meanings of democracy, many now of little value. Instead, we need to focus on the present moment, seeking to re-imagine the meaning of democracy in today’s world

October 15, 2021

🦋 How do we translate the meaning of democracy across cultural divides?

Chih-yu Shih

Chih-yu Shih argues that we can meet Jean-Paul Gagnon’s democracy challenge across linguistic and cultural divides. He explores how 'critical translation' (aimed at 'relational' and not 'total texture') can yield results for those pursuing democratic commonality

October 14, 2021

🦋 Democracy preserves dignity, a means to an end, not an end itself

Paula Sabloff

Paula Sabloff, in a direct response to Jean-Paul Gagnon’s democracy challenge, argues that to understand what democracy means, we need to know what it is for. By exploring this, we arrive at a meaning that is about means, not ends. And it is not as complicated as we might think

October 8, 2021

🦋 A democratic philosophy for democracy’s data mountain? 

John Min

John Min accepts Jean-Paul Gagnon’s premise that democratic theorists should persist in studying the nature of democracy, and sees the goals of Gagnon’s project as admirable. But he argues that several methodological issues concerning the means of achieving those ends need to be explored

October 4, 2021

🦋 Not deliberating about democracies is a deadly trap

Patricia Roberts-Miller

Responding to Jean-Paul Gagnon’s blog on the science of democracy, Patricia Roberts-Miller recalls 'Thucydides' trap' to explain the dangers of forcing one meaning of democracy over others, as happened during the Athenian Empire. Silencing other democracies harms people through wars overseas and suppression at home. And it can, in turn, ruin those very democracies that are doing the silencing

September 28, 2021

🦋 The tension between the singular and multivarious conceptions of democracy

Marcin Kaim

The merit of Jean-Paul Gagnon’s project is that it calls attention to the friction between singular and plural conception of democracy. While this is a well-known topic in democratic theory, it does not remain central. However, writes Marcin Kaim, a lexicon, and therefore a 'total texture' of democracy, could bring about a change

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

September 16, 2021

🦋 What is democracy? An empirical response to the Butterfly Collector

Leonardo Morlino

Jean-Paul Gagnon's original blog in this series asked ‘what is democracy?’ Leonardo Morlino brings an empirical perspective to this question. Contextualising and unpacking it, he then develops an empirical strategy of research for democrats to follow

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🦋 A night at the museum of democracy

🦋 Democracy – what a lovely mess!

🦋 Lost in the arcades of democracy

🦋 How do we translate the meaning of democracy across cultural divides?

🦋 Democracy preserves dignity, a means to an end, not an end itself

🦋 A democratic philosophy for democracy’s data mountain?

🦋 Not deliberating about democracies is a deadly trap

🦋 The tension between the singular and multivarious conceptions of democracy

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

🦋 What is democracy? An empirical response to the Butterfly Collector

The Loop

🦋 A democratic philosophy for democracy’s data mountain? 