@DissentientOne

Political theorist & @yale prof. #Firstgen, writing about democracy and tweeting on the rolling horror that is life in the year 2023

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It's publication day for Democracy for Busy People! Out now from @UChicagoPress. Get yours at press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books… or wherever books are sold.
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Perspectives on Politics@PoPpublicsphere24 Sep 2024
VOLUME 22, ISSUE 3 IS NOW OUT!! buff.ly/3BdjX1v buff.ly/2KtaS5j Incl. work by @allisonrharell, @miacarbonee, @s_soroka, @KrzPelc, @_sungkim, @DissentientOne, @donaldpgreen, @hamelpolisci, @michaelgmiller, @Jacob_S_Hacker, @ameliamalpas, @samzacher, @myles_sage..
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Hélène Landemore
@landemore17 Jun 2024
My article "Can #Deliberation Bring #AI to the Masses?" came out in this beautiful volume by Ruth Chang and @amiasrinivasan, paired with an essay by Philip Pettit: academic.oup.com/book/56297/… The same version is available for free here as well: academia.edu/106616966/Lande…

Can Artificial Intelligence Bring Deliberation to the Masses?

Abstract. A core problem in deliberative democracy is the tension between two seemingly equally important conditions of democratic legitimacy: deliberation

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Yale ISPS@ISPSYale14 May 2024
Is democracy too demanding? We chat with @DissentientOne about his book, approaching democratic reform from the perspective many people do not have the time to devote to politics bit.ly/3yg45Kd
Kevin Elliott seated in his office, next to a bookcase and in front of a fireplace

ALT Kevin Elliott seated in his office, next to a bookcase and in front of a fireplace

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Stephan Kyburz 🏛 Rules of the Game@skyburz3 May 2024
🏛️ Episode 42 | Rules of the Game 📜 With Kevin Elliott @DissentientOne, I discuss his book "Democracy for Busy People". How can we make democracy work for busy people, while enhancing its democratic nature? Spotify: bit.ly/4a1ufO1 Apple: bit.ly/4blTvzH
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Liberal Currents@LiberalCurrents15 Jan 2024
"'How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?' This question, asked by English writer Samuel Johnson in 1775, still touches a nerve today." liberalcurrents.com/taking-i…

Taking Inclusion Seriously: Kevin Elliott's Democracy for Busy People

“How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” This question, asked by English writer Samuel Johnson in 1775, still touches a nerve today. Americans on the one...

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Matthew Cole@mattbencole4 Jan 2024
Republican voters can think complex thoughts like "fascism is fine if my taxes go down"
The Associated Press
@AP4 Jan 2024
One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry apnews.com/article/biden-tru…

One attack, two interpretations: Biden and Trump both make the Jan. 6 riot a political rallying cry

Donald Trump plans to spend the third anniversary of the Capitol riot by campaigning in Iowa as he tries win back the White House. The former Republican president has two events planned for Saturday...

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KCL Centre for the Study of Governance & Society@csgskcl22 Dec 2023
Prof. Kevin Elliott from Murray State University has recently written a book titled ‘Democracy for Busy People’, that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics. See here 📚 ow.ly/AgPP50QjIqf

Democracy for Busy People

Advances an alternative approach to democratic reform that focuses on building institutions that empower people who have little time for politics.   How do we make democracy more equal? Although in...

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Kevin Elliott | @kjephd.bsky.social@DissentientOne7 Dec 2023
Partisanship is partly a performance, and we learn how we ought to enact it in part by looking around the social environment. When journalists influenced by political science tell us there are just identity partisans who stand with daggers drawn, that limits our pol imaginations.
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I argue there are at least two fundamentally different ways citizens experience their relationship to political parties: based on identity & closeness. These understandings are embedded in existing survey measures of partisanship & I argue they matter for how we study & value it.
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For White & Ypi, the situation is even more stark because their account is ~incompatible with identity partisanship but works well with closeness partisanship. They value partisanship for how it sustains collective projects, but identity isn't about that while closeness may be.
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I conclude that if we want what's best about partisanship on any of these accounts, we should be attentive to the plurality of partisanships. We should also revise how we study partisanship to better reflect how citizens live it every day, and avoid polarized conflict.
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My article, "What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship & Its Value for Democracy," is now available OPEN ACCESS at Perspectives on Politics @PoPpublicsphere. It's political theory aimed at improving both empirical & normative study of partisanship. Thread:
Cambridge University Press - Politics@CUP_PoliSci6 Dec 2023
#OpenAccess from @PoPPublicSphere - What Is It Like To Be a Partisan? Measures of Partisanship and Its Value for Democracy - cup.org/3NBYLpB - @DissentientOne #FirstView
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