Jean-Paul Gagnon
@jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social
A philosopher of the democracies based at the University of Canberra.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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#democracy #politicaltheory #democraticinnovation
We can cultivate democratic practices that are more inclusive, adaptive, and responsive to local realities across continents, cultures, languages, and species. We can even make our lives less authoritarian. #democracy
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October 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
We can cultivate democratic practices that are more inclusive, adaptive, and responsive to local realities across continents, cultures, languages, and species. We can even make our lives less authoritarian. #democracy
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Das Buch „The Sciences of the Democracies” (@uclpress.bsky.social) mit Benjamin Abrams, Jean-Paul Gagnon (@jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social) & Petra Guasti (@petraguasti.bsky.social) gibt es als #openaccess zum Download:
The Sciences of the Democracies
The field of democracy studies is more constricted than it needs to be, as researchers, for all their insights, continue to study only fragments of democracy in isolation from each other. Seeking chan...
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October 13, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Das Buch „The Sciences of the Democracies” (@uclpress.bsky.social) mit Benjamin Abrams, Jean-Paul Gagnon (@jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social) & Petra Guasti (@petraguasti.bsky.social) gibt es als #openaccess zum Download:
To renew democracy, study it holistically.
Draw on five sources: individual people, groups, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans.
Do this across cultures, languages, and species to uncover unfamiliar practices beyond Western views.
#DemocraticRenewal
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…
Draw on five sources: individual people, groups, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans.
Do this across cultures, languages, and species to uncover unfamiliar practices beyond Western views.
#DemocraticRenewal
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October 12, 2025 at 9:28 PM
To renew democracy, study it holistically.
Draw on five sources: individual people, groups, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans.
Do this across cultures, languages, and species to uncover unfamiliar practices beyond Western views.
#DemocraticRenewal
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…
Draw on five sources: individual people, groups, non-textual media, texts, and non-humans.
Do this across cultures, languages, and species to uncover unfamiliar practices beyond Western views.
#DemocraticRenewal
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…
A lovely interview by our co-author Tom Theuns on our recent book, The Sciences of the Democracies. His emphasis on the languages shows how very, very, much work we have ahead of us. #FundingPlease! 😁
I gave a short interview about 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘦𝘴, a collaborative monograph I co-authored (lead @jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social), published #OpenAccess by @uclpress.bsky.social over the summer:
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Full book: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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Full book: discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contexts
A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of a democratic manifesto, is written by a large numb...
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August 28, 2025 at 8:58 AM
A lovely interview by our co-author Tom Theuns on our recent book, The Sciences of the Democracies. His emphasis on the languages shows how very, very, much work we have ahead of us. #FundingPlease! 😁
Our readers are talking about the 'Fourth Theorist' of democracy.
This person is yet to exist.
They will be the first to theorize from thousands of practices and millions of texts/other on democracy.
Is this a type of theorist we want/need?
🦄 Read open access:
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This person is yet to exist.
They will be the first to theorize from thousands of practices and millions of texts/other on democracy.
Is this a type of theorist we want/need?
🦄 Read open access:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…
August 25, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Our readers are talking about the 'Fourth Theorist' of democracy.
This person is yet to exist.
They will be the first to theorize from thousands of practices and millions of texts/other on democracy.
Is this a type of theorist we want/need?
🦄 Read open access:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…
This person is yet to exist.
They will be the first to theorize from thousands of practices and millions of texts/other on democracy.
Is this a type of theorist we want/need?
🦄 Read open access:
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-scien…
New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF.
Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.
Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.
August 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF.
Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.
Link: uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sci...
A core implication of the book is that it seeks to revive basic descriptive research to lay the groundwork for stronger and more inclusive theories of democracy.