Democratic theory and practice

Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University   Press, 2024).

“Constituent Power in India: The People and Its Transformation,” Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power, eds. Peter Niesen, Markus Patberg, Lucia Rubinelli (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming) war

Key Publications:

• Political Institutions and Practical Wisdom: Between Rules and Practice, 2018
• Strong Constitutions: Social-Cognitive Origins of the Separation of Powers, 2013
• New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence (Edited), 2012

Current courses: POLI 516A Democratization

Current projects: Democracy and the Common Good

See Maxwell Cameron's full profile here. 

Key Publications:

• Distributed Democracy: Health Care Governance in Ontario, 2020
• "Role-playing in public engagement for housing for vulnerable populations: An experiment exploring its possibilities and limitations". Land Use Policy, 2020
• "Venue Coupling and Actor Circulation in Deliberative Systems: Health Care Governance in Ontario." Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2020

Current projects: Role-playing in public engagement in local government contexts

See Carey Doberstein's full profile here. 

Key Publications:

• "Satisfaction with Democracy: The Impact of Institutions, Contexts and Attitudes." Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2022.
• "Having Their Say: Authority, Voice, and Satisfaction with Democracy." Journal of Politics, 2019.
• "Political Conditions for Electoral Accountability in Federalism". Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2015.
• "Deliberation, information, and trust: The British Columbia citizens’ assembly as agenda setter", 2008.

See Fred Cutler's full profile here. 

Key Publications: 

• “Democracy in contested territory: on the legitimacy of global legal pluralism,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, forthcoming.
• “Critical International Political Theory,” with Seyla Benhabib, Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory, 2018
• “Hannah Arendt reads Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth: a dialogue on law and geopolitics from the margins,” European Journal of Political Theory, 2017

Current research projects: Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond the Bounds of Sovereignty (book manuscript in progress).

See Anna Jurkevics's full profile here   

Key Publications:

• "Four Arenas: Malaysia's 2018 Election, Reform, and Democratization" Democratization, 2020.
• "Explaining Elections in Singapore: Dominant Party Resilience and Valence Politics" Journal of East Asian Studies, 2018

See Kai Ostwald's full profile here. 

Key Publications:

•  Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought, 2024
• “Constituent Power in India: The People and Its Transformation,” Oxford Handbook of Constituent Power, 2025

Courses: POLI 523B Popular Sovereignty (Fall 2022)

See Nazmul Sultan's full profile here   

  Key Publications: 

• “Having Their Say:  Authority, Voice, and Satisfaction with Democracy,” Journal of Politics, 2019
•  “Institutional Deliberation,” in Dryzek, et al., Handbook of Deliberative Democracy. 2018
• “The Cooperative Resolution of Policy Conflict,” American Political Science Review. 1989

See Paul Quirk's full profile here   

Key Publications: 

• “The role of self-interest in deliberation: a theory of deliberative capital.” Political Studies, 2021.
• “Disabled lives in deliberative systems.” Political Theory, 2020.
• “Democracy in a Global Emergency: Five Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Democratic Theory. 2020. with Emily Beausoleil, Rikki Dean, Selen Ercan, and Jean-Paul Gagnon.

Courses this year: POLI 521A Political Theory

See Afsoun Afsahi's full profile here