No one in this world truly understands what democracy means. We operate democracy only through best guesses. This uncertainty has caused, and continues to cause, significant political troubles. This book offers a way forward. It provides a new tool that will allow us to understand democracy for the entire planet and all of humanity.

Gagnon's work thrillingly blows open methodological and epistemological debates in the analysis of democracy. It deserves attention from all scholars and advanced students dissatisfied with contemporary conceptualisations and measurements of democracy. (Matthew Wood, Political Studies Review, Vol. 13 (4), 2015)

Autorentext
Dr Jean-Paul Gagnon is University Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Faculty of Education and Arts, Australian Catholic University.

Inhalt
Preface Introduction A New Analytic Tool 1. The Subalterns and Unknowns of Democracy 2. Arguments for Evolutionary Democracy 3. Arguments against Evolutionary Democracy 4. Schrödinger's Democracy Notes