The foundational principles of deliberation rest on citizens meeting as political and moral equals. If we take them seriously, we need to consider the exclusion that arises from power asymmetries. The...

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Campaign ads barely move the needle. The real influence is hiding in plain sight.

If Badguy threatens Goodguy with harm, and Goodguy consents to giving his money to Badguy (to avoid the harm), Goodguy’s consent is invalid because coerced. But if under Badguy’s coercive ...

■連載コラム「日曜に想う」　コラムニスト・吉岡桂子　政治学の研究者でつくる「日本政治学会」（会員・約1800人）に女性初の理事長が誕生する。上智大学教授の三浦まりさん、1967年生まれ。ジェンダーと政…

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Having enough of a say

Faced with the failures of existing democracies, many democratic theorists conclude from recent empirical work in political science critical of the functioning of electoral institutions that citizens are too ignorant to hold office-holders to account and that representative democracies are not responsive to ordinary citizens. We argue that these conclusions are unwarranted. They hinge on highly contestable interpretations of the work in question and conflict with important contrary theoretical and empirical findings that democratic theorists have ignored. If our argument is convincing, it should weaken the case for alternative regime types (e.g., lottocracy or epistocracy), which rests in part on empirically grounding the assertion that representative democracies cannot deliver meaningful accountability. Our argument also highlights the importance of engaging with the social-scientific literature in a more careful and wide-ranging manner. 

Volume 12, issue 2 of the journal Moral Philosophy and Politics was published in 2025.

Karl Marx rejected the ideal of equality as bourgeois. And yet, the most significant attempt in recent years to distinguish socialist theory from liberal egalitarian theory, G.A. Cohen's critique of J...

Using AI systems to make decisions in the place of humans promises greater efficiency, but some authors raise a number of ethical worries about this. The undermining of responsibility, the removal of ...

みんなの決定はなぜ「正しい」のか。なぜ「素人」でも政治に貢献できるのか。現代デモクラシー論の第一人者による集合知からの応答。 エレーヌ・ランデモア 著

"The Journal of Political Philosophy will cease publication effective January 1, 2026." That's from an email sent by the journal's publisher, Wiley, earlier today, calling the move "a difficult decisi...

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男女差別をする人は、出身地や親の価値観に影響されるのか。大阪大学元副学長・刑法学者の島岡まな教授は「人権意識の高いフランスで学んだ私は、息子が差別的な人間にならないよう育ててきたつもりだった。しかし