Chapter 3 of Against Democracy looks at the empirical work on how political participation, and in particular, deliberative democracy, affects us. Mill hypothesized that deliberation would tend to educate and ennoble…
Diana Mutz’s Hearing the Other Side is one of my favorite books on political behavior and among the most influential books in my own intellectual development. It’s easy to read, short,…
I’m in the process of writing Against Politics. Among other things, the book argues that Mill was wrong and Schumpeter was right about how political engagement affects us. Political engagement doesn’t…