Democratic Theory

Democratic Theory: An Interdisciplinary Journal

Democratic Theory: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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Discipline	Political Theory
Language	English
Edited by	Emily Beausoleil, Victoria University of Wellington; Jean-Paul Gagnon, University of Canberra
Publication details
History	2014 to Present
Publisher	Berghahn (United States)
Frequency	Biannually
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ISSN	2332-8894 (print) 2332-8908 (web)
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Democratic Theory is a peer-reviewed journal published and distributed by Berghahn.

It encourages philosophical and interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore democratic theory—in all its forms. Spanning a range of views, the journal offers a cross-disciplinary forum for diverse theoretical questions to be put forward and systematically examined. It advances non-Western as well as Western ideas and is actively based on the premise that there are many forms of democracies and many types of democrats.

History, Aim & Scope

The aim of this journal is twofold. Though it is often seen as a sub-discipline of political theory, democratic theory has become such a complex and large area of analysis that the founders of the journal decided such an area of study ought to have its own dedicated space. The need for such a space was made evident by the copious amounts of varied and interesting research being conducted in areas such as direct democracy, representative democracy, deliberative democracy, agonistic democracy, radical democracy, cosmopolitan democracy, post-democracies and new authoritarianism. Democratic Theory seeks to create a forum space for works that dedicate themselves to democracy studies. By doing so, such works are able to analyse, explain and make sense of the theoretical and practical implications of democracy in research, and in every day lives, on its own terms.

Though democratic theory has become such a large and important body of work, prior to the publishing of this journal, no single space or forum for such types of work existed. Scholarship on democratic theory was taking place, but it was fragmented and spread across a wide variety of disciplinary journals. The aim of Democratic Theory then was to consolidate the area of democratic theory research and create a single forum that could fill the gap that had been left in the literature by the lack of unification on this topic.

As a forum for debate, the journal challenges theorists to ask and answer the perennial questions that plague the field of democratisation studies:

• Why is democracy so prominent in the world today?
• What is the meaning of democracy?
• Will democracy continue to expand?
• Are current forms of democracy sufficient to give voice to “the people” in an increasingly fragmented and divided world?
• Who leads in democracy?
• What types of non-Western democratic theories are there?
• Should democrats always defend democracy?
• Should democrats be fearful of de-democratisation, post-democracies, and the rise of hybridised regimes?

List of Publications to Date

Volume No.	Year	Issues	Editorial	Articles
Volume: 1	2014	Issue 1 (June): pp. 1-113	Why Democratic Theory? By: Jean-Paul Gagnon and Mark Chou Pages: 1–8	The Swindle of Democracy in the Neoliberal University and the Responsibility of Intellectuals By: Henry A. Giroux Pages: 9–37
				The Role of Schools in the Rise of Egalitarian Political Culture By: Simeon Mitropolitski Pages: 38–57
				What Should the Citizen Know about Politics? Two Approaches to the Measurement of Political Knowledge By: Lauri Rapeli Pages: 58–93
				Representing Nature and Contemporary Democracy By: Robyn Eckersley and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 94–108
				Book Reviews By: Jack Corbett and Tezcan Gumus Pages: 109–113
		Issue 2 (December): pp. 1-150	The Crisis of Democracy Which Crisis? Which Democracy? By: Selen A. Ercan and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 1–10	Is There a Crisis of Democracy? By: Wolfgang Merkel Pages: 11–25
				The “Democracy-Politics Paradox” The Dynamics of Political Alienation By: Gerry Stoker and Mark Evans Pages: 26–36
				What Is the Nature of the Crisis of Democracy and What Can We Do about It? By: David Marsh Pages: 37–46
				Crisis of Democracy? Recognizing the Democratic Potential of Alternative Forms of Political Participation By: Brendan McCaffrie and Sadiya Akram Pages: 47–55
				Family Squabbles Beyond the Conflict-Consensus Divide By: Henrik P. Bang Pages: 56–66
				Can't Live With Them, Can't Live Without Them Why Politicians Matter By: Paul Fawcett Pages: 67–75
				Can Democracy Survive the Rise of Surveillance Technology? By: Giovanni Navarria Pages: 76–84
				Deliberative Democracy Bringing the System Back In By: Michael J. Jensen Pages: 85–94
				Citizen Forums in the Deliberative System By: Andrea Felicetti Pages: 95–103
				The Contemporary Crisis of Representative Democracy By: Simon Tormey Pages: 104–112
				Participation without Deliberation The Crisis of Venezuelan Democracy By: Nicole Curato Pages: 113–121
				Niggling New Democracies in the Age of Individualization in Japan By: Tetsuki Tamura and Yasuko H. Kobayashi Pages: 122–130
				Forms of Political Participation Used within Forest Certification By: Lain Dare Pages: 131–141
				Failure in Representation at the Local Government Level? A Case Study By: Dugald Monro Pages: 142–150
Volume: 2	2015	Issue 1 (June): pp. 1-124	Editorial By: Jean-Paul Gagnon and Mark Chou Pages: 1–3	On Mouffe's Agonism Why It Is Not a Refutation of Consensus By: George Vasilev Pages: 4–21
				(Mis)arguing Diversity The Weakness of Diversity as a Civic Argument (and How to Make It Stronger) By: Jose Marichal Pages: 22–41
				Deliberating Bodies Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment By: Amanda Machin Pages: 42–62
				Dividing Deliberative and Participatory Democracy through John Dewey By: Jeff Jackson Pages: 63–84
				Book Symposium By: Richard Avramenko, Lars Tønder and Jeffrey Edward Green Pages: 85–99
				A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy By: Stephen Elstub and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 100–117
				Book Reviews By: Daniele Santoro and Joseph Lacey Pages: 118–124
		Issue 2 (December): pp. 1-113	Non-Western Theories of Democracy By: Mark Chou and Emily Beausoleil Pages: 1–7	Electoral and Intellectual Exercises in Validation The Ebbing Wave in Southern Africa By: Stephen Chan Pages: 8–21
				Democracy in the Pacific Islands Comparable Practices, Contested Meanings By: Jack Corbett Pages: 22–40
				Democratic Theory The South African Crucible By: Lawrence Hamilton Pages: 41–58
				The Gandhian Vision of Democracy By: Ramin Jahanbegloo Pages: 59–70
				Democracy and Vietnam Visceral Perspectives By: Kim Huynh Pages: 71–78
				Democratic Theory and the Question of Islam By: Michaelle Browers Pages: 79–87
				Book Symposium By: Timothy Marjoribanks, Ricardo Febrino Mendonça, Wilson Gomes, Henrik Paul Bang and John Keane Pages: 88–109
				The Time Is Always Now Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy By: J.A. O'Connor Pages: 110–113
Volume: 3	2016	Issue 1 (June): pp. 1-115	Opportunity in the Crisis of Democracy By: Jean-Paul Gagnon and George Vasilev Pages: 1–5	Reflections on the Meaning of the “Crisis of Democracy” By: Nadia Urbinati Pages: 6–31
				Free from State Violence or Free to Comply? A Revised Typology of Coercion and Repression in Liberal Democracies By: Barbora Capinska Pages: 32–51
				From Schmitt to Foucault Inquiring the Relationship between Exception and Democracy By: Sara Raimondi Pages: 52–70
				Lest We Forget (Matter) Posthumanism, Memory, and Exclusion By: Matthew Howard Pages: 71–90
				Democracies and Their Crises Reconsidered By: Wolfgang Merkel and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 91–109
				Book Reviews By: Jeffrey D. Hilmer and Max Halupka Pages: 110–115
		Issue 2 (December): pp. 1-124	Editorial By: Mark Chou and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 1	Effective Deliberative Inclusion of Women in Contexts of Traditional Political Authority By: Monique Deveaux Pages: 2–25
				On Two Anti-Democratic Uses of Sortition By: Filimon Peonidis Pages: 26–45
				Breaking New and Controversial Ground? Democracy in ASEAN By: Avery Poole Pages: 46–62
				Book Symposium By: Nancy S. Love, Sanford F. Schram, Anthony J. Langlois, Luis Cabrera and Carol C. Gould Pages: 63–93
				Participatory Democracy in Unlikely Places What Democratic Theorists Can Learn from Democratic Professionals By: Selen A. Ercan and Albert Dzur Pages: 94–113
				China’s New Silk Road Autocracy Promotion in the New Asian Order? By: Octavia Bryant and Mark Chou Pages: 114–124
Volume: 4	2017	Issue 1 (June): pp.1-124	Resist and Revivify Democratic Theory in a Time of Defiance By: Jean-Paul Gagnon and Emily Beausoleil Pages: 1–10	The Will of the People? Schmitt and Rousseau on a Key Question in Democratic Theory By: Samuel Salzborn Pages: 11–34
				Common Democracy Political Representation beyond Representative Democracy By: Alexandros Kioupkiolis Pages: 35–58
				The Deliberative Potential of Facultative Referendums Procedure and Substance in Direct Democracy By: Alice el-Wakil Pages: 59–78
				Paul Apostolidis, William Connolly, Jodi Dean, and Jade Schiff comment on Romand Coles’s book Visionary Pragmatism Coles Responds By: Paul Apostolidis, William E. Connolly, Jodi Dean, Jade Schiff and Romand Coles Pages: 79–108
				John Dewey between Participatory Democracy and Direct Action A Commentary on Jeff Jackson By: William R. Caspary Pages: 109–120
				SeeClickFix Empowers Citizens by Connecting Them to Their Local Governments By: Ben Berkowitz and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 121–124
		Issue 2 (December): pp.1-110	Editorial By: Mark Chou and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 1–2	Does Democratic Theory Need Epistemic Standards? Grounds for a Purely Procedural Defense of Majority Rule By: Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti Pages: 3–26
				Facts and Norms in Democratization By: Roberto Farneti Pages: 27–48
				Organized Interests and the Prospects of a Global Democracy By: Leif Lewin Pages: 49–65
				Affected Interests and Their Institutions By: Amit Ron Pages: 66–81
				The End of Representative Politics, Revisited By: Simon Tormey and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 82–101
				Dethroning Deliberation A Response to Caspary By: Jeff Jackson Pages: 102–110
Volume: 5	2018	Issue 1 (June): pp.v-156	Editorial By: Jean-Paul Gagnon and Mark Chou Pages: v–vii	Epistocracy and Democratic Participation in a Post-Truth World By: Peter Standbrink Pages: 1–17
				War without Citizens Memorialization, War, and Democracy in the United States By: Stephen J. Rosow Pages: 18–38
				The Cold War Origins of the “Crisis of Democracy” By: Kyong-Min Son Pages: 39–61
				Breaking Barriers and Coded Language Watching Politics of Race at the Ballpark By: Thomas D. Bunting Pages: 62–80
				Interview Propaganda’s Role in Liberal Democratic Societies By: Jason Stanley and John B. Min Pages: 81–91
				2,234 Descriptions of Democracy An Update to Democracy’s Ontological Pluralism By: Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 92–113
				Online Supplement A By: Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 114–116
				Online Supplement B By: Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 117–144
				Online Supplement C By: Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 145–156
		Issue 2 (December): pp.vi-127	What is populism? Who is the populist? A state of the field review (2008-2018) By: Jean-Paul Gagnon, Emily Beausoleil, Kyong-Min Son, Cleve Arguelles, Pierrick Chalaye and Callum N. Johnston Pages: vi–xxvi	The Populism/Anti-Populism Divide in Western Europe By: Benjamin Moffitt Pages: 1–16
				In Praise of Democratic Ambivalence By: Adele Webb Pages: 17–36
				Freedom from Democracy Progressive Populism and the Rise of Global Corporate Power By: Mary Walsh Pages: 37–55
				Nexus Politics Conceptualizing Everyday Political Engagement By: Matthew Flinders and Matthew Wood Pages: 56–81
				On Intentionality and Motivation in Digital Spaces A Response to Flinders and Wood By: Max Halupka Pages: 82–89
				Between the Social and the Political The Role of the Proto-Political Sphere in Political Participation By: Pia Rowe and David Marsh Pages: 90–98
				What is “Political” Participation Beyond Explicit Motivations and Oppositional Actions By: Sadiya Akram and David Marsh Pages: 99–107
				Practitioner’s Note MASS LBP and Long-Form Deliberation in Canada By: Spencer McKay and Peter MacLeod Pages: 108–113
				Unambivalent about Ambivalence in the Politics of Mourning David McIvor’s Mourning in America and Simon Stow’s American Mourning By: Greta Fowler Snyder Pages: 114–124
				Book Review By: Anna Schön Pages: 125–127
Volume: 6	2019	Issue 1(June): pp. v-130	Editorial Research Article By: Jean-Paul Gagnon and Selen A. Ercan Pages: v–vi	Belonging to Spontaneous Order Hayek, Pluralism, Democracy By: Stephanie Erev Pages: 1–26
				Democratic Citizenship as Uruguayan Cultural Heritage By: Robin Rodd Pages: 27–48
				Sectarianism and Recognition in Iraq From Consociationalism to Deliberation? By: Nicolas Pirsoul Pages: 49–72
				Equality, Proportionality, and the All-Affected Principle By: Jonas Hultin Rosenberg Pages: 73–96
				Deliberative Democracy Taking Stock and Looking Ahead - Selen A. Ercan with André Bächtiger By: Selen A. Ercan and André Bächtiger Pages: 97–110
				Powerlessness and Unfairness A Letter to Jan Zielonka By: Henri Vogt Pages: 111–121
				Little Phil Changing the Relationship between Philanthropy and Democracy? By: Joshua Murchie and Jean-Paul Gagnon Pages: 122–127
				Garry Rodan, Participation Without Democracy Containing Conflict in Southeast Asia By: Matthew David Ordoñez Pages: 129–130
		Issue 2(December): pp.v-120	What Is Democratic Theory? By: Rikki Dean, Jean-Paul Gagnon and Hans Asenbaum Pages: v–xx	Theorizing about Democracy By: Michael Saward Pages: 1–11
				What Are We Doing When We Are Doing Democratic Theory? By: Dannica Fleuß and Gary S. Schaal Pages: 12–26
				Democratic Theory When Democracy Is Fugitive By: Ali Aslam, David McIvor and Joel Alden Schlosser Pages: 27–40
				Systematizing Democratic Systems Approaches Seven Conceptual Building Blocks By: Rikki Dean, Jonathan Rinne and Brigitte Geissel Pages: 41–57
				Democratic Theory as Social Codification By: Christian Ewert and Marion Repetti Pages: 58–69
				Assessing Democracy In Vitro, In Vivo, and In Actu and the Role of Democratic Theory Today By: Anastasia Deligiaouri and Jane Suiter Pages: 70–84
				Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice Democratic Theory through an Agonistic Lens By: Marie Paxton Pages: 85–95
				Why History Matters for Democracy By: John Keane Pages: 96–110
				Reflecting on Fifty Years of Democratic Theory Carole Pateman in Conversation with Graham Smith By: Carole Pateman and Graham Smith Pages: 111–120

SCImago Journal Rank (SJR)

According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked  0.171. SCImago Journal Rank is an indicator, which measures the scientific influence of journals. It considers the number of citations received by a journal and the importance of the journals from where these citations come.

Founders

Democratic Theory was co-founded by Mark Chou, from the Australian Catholic University, and Jean-Paul Gaganon, from the university of Canberra.