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Introduction James S. Fishkin & Jane Mansbridge Democracy is under siege. Approval ratings for democratic institutions in most countries around the world are at near-record lows. The number of rec- ognized democratic countries in the…
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Introduction Yochai Benkler & David D. Clark The Internet was born in 1983. At least that is when it adopted tcp/ip (transmission control protocol/ Internet protocol), the communications protocol that conceptually separates the Internet from…
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Introduction Henry E. Brady & Kay Lehman Schlozman “So when we talk about Skid Row . . . there’s law enforcement agencies that have created a whole lot of trauma. . . .” —President of…
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Introduction: The Pasts & Futures of the Administrative State Mark Tushnet To understand contemporary arguments about deconstructing and reconstructing the modern administrative state, we have to understand where that state came from, and what its…