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The Demos and the Boundary Problem
Fri, September 6, 8:00 to 9:30am, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Commonwealth CSession Submission Type: Created Panel
Session Description
This panel provides new reflections on one of the classic problems in democratic theory: how do we conceptualize a self-governing people and what are its boundaries, both geographically and in regards to membership?
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Individual Presentations
Cities and the Democratic Boundary Problem - David Watkins, University of Dayton
From “Who” to “What”: Why the Constitution of the Demos Matters for Democracy - Kristin Zuhone, University of California, Berkeley
Not the One and Not the Many: Reimagining the People against Populism - Natan Milikowsky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
The Democratic Politics of Planetary Boundaries - Elisabeth H. Ellis, University of Otago