Several studies have suggested the possibility of reverse causation in the ‘democratic peace’ relationship: that the well-known extreme rarity of wars between democratic nations may be partially or wholly explained by a negative impact of war on democracy. Three kinds of war-on-regime effects are discussed. Anterior effects are regime changes that occur in preparation for wars; concurrent effec...

Arguably, liberal democratic societies are seeing the emergence of a ‘Fifth Estate’ that is being enabled by the Internet. This new organizational form is comparable to, but potentially more powerful than, the Fourth Estate, which developed as a significant force in an earlier period with an independent press and other mass media. While the significance of the press and the Internet to democrat...

in what follows, i would like to contribute to a defense of deliberative democracy by giving an affirmative answer to the question in the title. the goal is admittedly humble. For the coherence of an ideal says nothing about its desirability, feasibility or overall appropriateness.1 and, indeed, i will not address these further issues here. but, though humble, the goal of assessing the coherenc...

With the emergence of collaborative knowledge goods such as Wikipedia, the demo­ cratic evolution of documents seems to be a minor step in the further evolution of democracy. However, a proper theory for the development and exploitation of democratic text information systems is missing. We propose the development of a framework for democratic text evolution that includes both techni cal and soc...

Abstract There has been much recent debate over whether the European Union is or should be a ‘militant democratic’ actor in order to respond democratic backsliding EU member states. This article argues that militant democracy specific and limited sense, but this may normatively undesirable from perspective. I first develop definition of focuses on paradox. argue strongest justifications for req...