Hélène Landemore is Associate Professor of Political Science, with Tenure. Her research and teaching interests include democratic theory, political epistemology, theories of justice, the philosophy of social sciences, constitutional processes and theories, and workplace democracy. Hélène is the author of Democratic Reason (Princeton University Press 2013, winner of the Elaine and David Spitz Prize 2015) and Open Democracy (Princeton University Press 2020), as well as a book in French on David Hume, two edited volumes, and multiple peer-reviewed articles. Her research has been featured in the New York Times, the Boston Review, Slate, the Washington Post, L’Humanité, Le Monde, and recently the New Yorker. She is a member of the core group behind the Democratizing Work movement ([ Ссылка ]). She is currently serving as expert consultant for the French government on a committee evaluating the CESE (Economic, Social and Environmental Council)’s experimentation with randomly selected citizens.

Dr. Eva Rovers is a cultural historian with a PhD from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands, and the author of several critically acclaimed books on cultural history and societal change. For the past two years, she has been studying Climate Citizens’ Assemblies (CCAs) across Europe. This sortition-based form of democracy has been heralded as one of the most innovative tools for developing much needed ambitious climate policies, while at the same time strengthening democracies by engaging everyday people in decision making. Climate Citizens’ Assemblies are deliberative processes in which randomly selected citizens learn about climate change, deliberate possible solutions, and formulate a set of recommendations for their government.

Professor Mehta has taught at several universities, including Princeton, Cornell, MIT, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Hull and Amherst College. He is the author of The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in the Political Thought of John Locke(Cornell University Press, 1992) and Liberalism and Empire, (University of Chicago Press, 2000). Liberalism and Empire was awarded the J. David Greenstone prize for the best book in Political Theory by the American Political Science Association in 2002. In 2003, Mehta was one of ten recipients of the prestigious “Carnegie Scholars” prize given to “scholars of exceptional creativity.” He has a forthcoming book titled A Different Vision: Gandhi’s Critique of Political Rationality.

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