How do leading scholars reflect on contemporary democracies and the prospects of a more democratic future? This new volume offers a selection of conversations that we published in our first five years and probe that overarching question through key facets.
Reviewing Contemporary Democracy explores six such facets: the relationship between democracy and equality; the historical, legal, and political dimensions of European integration; the globality of democratic thought and democratization; the inclusivity of contemporary memory regimes; the origins and discontents of our political economies; and the contestations of the rule of law.
This exciting collection offers a multi- and interdisciplinary exploration of these issues while presenting cutting-edge scholarship in an accessible format.
Edited by Ferenc Laczó, Katarzyna Krzyżanowska, Oliver Garner, and Vera Scepanovic, the book contains edited transcripts of 34 podcasts published by the Review of Democracy between 2021 and 2025. These feature conversations with Judith Butler, Francis Fukuyama, Clara E. Mattei, Darrin M. McMahon, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Kiran Klaus Patel, Kenneth Roth, Joseph Stiglitz, Helen Thompson, Nathalie Tocci, and many others.
Laczó, Ferenc, Krzyżanowska, Katarzyna, Garner, Oliver and Scepanovic, Vera. Reviewing Contemporary Democracy: An Anthology, De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783112249079
