A philosopher of the democracies based at the University of Canberra.https://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3mkyg3kn7ps2zA quote from section five, "bringing our democracies back to earth" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40647-026-00469-404 May 2026 00:28 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkyg3kn7ps2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3mkt6xbbfd22bNew paper share, am told this is giving "human geography vibes" https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40647-026-00469-401 May 2026 22:37 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkt6xbbfd22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3mk2plfdeuk2iNew in Democratic Theory: Tobias Müller asks what kind of state democracy actually inhabits when it comes to religion. He identifies three conflicting state projects and argues they sanitise local democratic politics while fracturing the demos itself. Top work. https://doi.org/10.1017/S233288942600023022 Apr 2026 04:58 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk2plfdeuk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3m4pbmylb4c2rNew article share, open access, link below 💛 https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/theoria/72/183/th7218305.xml #democracy #politicaltheory #democraticinnovation03 Nov 2025 05:22 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4pbmylb4c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3m3laxdnkr226We 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 https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sciences-of-the-democracies/19 Oct 2025 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3laxdnkr226https://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3m2znf5qtfc23To 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…12 Oct 2025 21:28 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2znf5qtfc23https://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3lxh6iqop422kA 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! 😁 [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2025 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxh6iqop422khttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3lx7jwlof2k2xOur 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…25 Aug 2025 08:02 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lx7jwlof2k2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jeanpaulgagnon.bsky.social/post/3lw63d2f2vc27New book share. UCL Press published our Sciences of the Democracies last week in open access PDF. Link: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/the-sciences-of-the-democracies/ 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.12 Aug 2025 00:42 +0000at://did:plc:cknrdjsi6wdujhq224c6jvqc/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw63d2f2vc27