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March 17, 2022

🦋 Democracy is under threat, and we must use theory to save it

Simone Chambers

This is not the time for collecting butterflies, writes Simone Chambers in response to Jean-Paul Gagnon. The threats to democracy we face today call for innovation and engagement, not typologies and definitions

March 1, 2022

🦋 Democracy by any other name

Kathleen McCrudden Illert

Jean-Paul Gagnon has argued that the most promising way of approaching the total texture of democracy is through words. But, asks Kathleen McCrudden Illert, what’s in a name? Many theories that we would recognise today as democratic were not, due to their historical context, associated with the signifier ‘democracy’ – and these concepts will be missing from Gagnon’s data mountain.

February 17, 2022

🦋 A plea for pluralism in the study of democracy

Eva Krick

Eva Krick is sympathetic to Gagnon’s collection of ‘democracies with adjectives’ but does not fully share his optimism that this will finally make us grasp democracy’s ‘total texture’. It is but one little building block of an infinite and eclectic science of democracy.

January 29, 2022

🦋 A rigorous debate on intra-disciplinary boundaries and democracy

Gergana Dimova

In the 🦋 Science of Democracy series, Jean-Paul Gagnon has started an intra-disciplinary debate between democratic theory and comparative politics. The reasons to overcome this disciplinary clash are better than the reasons to embrace it, writes Gergana Dimova

January 24, 2022

🦋 Selection: the key to studying democracy and innovation

Frank Hendriks

Jean-Paul Gagnon takes biology as a model but overlooks that it is driven by variation as well as selection. The study of it, therefore, is sensitive to both. The study of democracy and innovation must be too, asserts Frank Hendriks

January 19, 2022

🦋 To defend democracy, understand it

Benjamin Abrams

Democracy is in danger, and autocrats are becoming bolder and bolder. Benjamin Abrams argues that our failure to understand democracy stops us from effectively defending it. To protect democracy, we need to understand what it means, what kind we have, and what it can become

January 14, 2022

🦋 Untangling description, deception and denunciation: a linguistic twist to the Science of Democracy

Rikki Dean

Jean-Paul Gagnon has amassed over 4,000 ‘linguistic artefacts’ into a data mountain of descriptions of democracy. Yet, notes Rikki Dean, a sustained consideration of these linguistic artefacts as language is missing from his Science of Democracy and its responses. Words do not only describe, they also deceive and denounce

January 10, 2022

🦋 A specimen drawer to capture the evolution of democracy

Ernesto Cruz Ruiz

Ernesto Cruz Ruiz argues that a Jean-Paul Gagnon’s democracy ‘data mountain’ will be of limited value if democracy is not also understood as a living entity which has evolved over time according to the impact of different environmental factors. To do this, he proposes a 'specimen drawer’

January 5, 2022

🦋 Is Chinese democracy democracy?

Sor-hoon Tan

Sor-hoon Tan explores the challenge that ‘Chinese democracy’ represents for Jean-Paul Gagnon’s democracy ‘data mountain’ project. She argues that exploring the Chinese case helps us establish the wide-ranging parameters to the project. It also identifies the theoretical issues we must confront for the project to succeed

December 20, 2021

🦋 The perpetual reinvention of democracy

Kyong-Min Son

Jean-Paul Gagnon’s proposal to study democracy as a stable object obscures one of the most important aspects of democracy: its normative character. Kyong-Min Son argues that democracy’s ‘spirit’ animates its perpetual reinvention in defiance of all empirical forms

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🦋 Democracy is under threat, and we must use theory to save it

🦋 Democracy by any other name

🦋 A plea for pluralism in the study of democracy

🦋 A rigorous debate on intra-disciplinary boundaries and democracy

🦋 Selection: the key to studying democracy and innovation

🦋 To defend democracy, understand it

🦋 Untangling description, deception and denunciation: a linguistic twist to the Science of Democracy

🦋 A specimen drawer to capture the evolution of democracy

🦋 Is Chinese democracy democracy?

🦋 The perpetual reinvention of democracy

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