Basic reading:

This reading list is indicative - i.e. it provides an idea of texts that may be useful to you on this module, but it is not considered to be a confirmed or compulsory reading list for this module.

Ackerman, Bruce & James Fishkin (2002) ‘Deliberation Day’, The Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (2): 129-152.

Brennan, Jason (2011) ‘The Right to a Competent Electorate’, The Philosophical Quarterly 61 (245): 700-724.

Canovan, Margaret (1999) ‘Trust the People! Populism and the two Faces of Democracy’, Political Studies 47: 2-16.

Gilroy, Paul (2012) ‘‘My Britain is fuck all’: zombie multiculturalism and the race politics of citizenship’, Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 19 (4): 380-397.

Green, Jeffrey (2010) The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship. Oxford University Press, ch.1 & 2 (excerpts).

Medina, Jose (2012) ‘Active Ignorance, Epistemic Others, and Epistemic Friction’ in The Epistemology of Resistance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ch.1.

Saward, Michael (2009) ‘Authorisation and Authenticity: Representation and the Unelected’, Journal of Political Philosophy 17 (1): 1-22.

White, Jonathan & Lea Ypi (forthcoming) ‘Political Parties’ in Jeffrey King and Richard Bellamy (eds) The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Woodley, Deva (2019) ‘Black Feminist Visions and the Politics of Healing in the Movement for Black Lives’ in Ay?e Gül Altýnay et al (eds) Women Mobilizing Memory. New York: Columbia University Press: 219-237.

Young¸ Iris Marion (2001) ‘Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy’, Political Theory 29 (5): 670-690.