Nadia Urbinati
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 286566 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Nadia Urbinati |
| NOMBRES | Nadia |
| APELLIDO | Urbinati |
| FIRMA | URBINATI N |
| AFILIACIONES | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1207-3181 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1017 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 89 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Hans Kelsen on Constitutional Democracy
This volume challenges conventional interpretations by demonstrating that Hans Kelsen was far from being a purely formalist thinker. Instead, it highlights his profound and enduring engagement with the threats facing constitutional democracies. The political and institutional upheavals of interwar Europe significantly influenced Kelsen's evolving vision of democracy, as this volume shows. His contributions to twentieth-century democratic theory i…
Symposium
The Ship of Democracy and the Lottocratic. Iceberg An Interview with Cristina Lafont and Nadia Urbinati (Online First)
For The People? Democratic Representation in America
Active and Passive Citizens
The decline and the need of the key force of intermediation
This article focuses on the relationship between ‘the social’ and ‘the political’, or more precisely, between a society of individuals and associations on the one hand and the domain of political deliberation on the other. Its main goal is to understand whether the transformation of intermediary bodies in politics (the parties) reflects a transformation of intermediary bodies in society; its hypothesis is that society does not experience a declin…
Nothing changed, but nothing was the same again
Parties As Agents of Equal Political Freedom
This paper recovers and develops the normative justification of political parties that procedural democracy offers. In contrast to the prevalent neglect or grudging acceptance of parties as a necessary evil within democratic theory, we argue for the vital role of parties in ensuring equal political freedom. We expose the anti-party spirit of three core contemporary views of democracy—epistemic democracy, populism, and realism—and explain how thei…
Exclusion, moderation and the game of party politics in Jan-Werner Müller’s Democracy rules
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The role of Hegel’s political philosophy in the understanding of our present
Liberalism as Fortress and Prison
This response to Bryan Garsten's essay on liberalism as refuge examines the risks that liberalism faces from within. The greatest of these risks is that liberalism loses its ability to promote moderation in human behavior. Liberalism is a culture of refuge, not of resurrection or liberation; it has a realistic and pessimistic vein that accepts human beings as they are and wants not to make them self-destructive or destructive of others. Yet if li…
The Sovereignty of Chance
In the context of the ongoing Common Knowledge symposium "Antipolitics," this article responds skeptically to the numerous contributions calling for the supplanting of elections by sortition. While lottocracy is proposed as a solution to the flaws of electoral democracy - notably, corruption and violent partisanship - this response focuses on a single theoretical issue: the logic of chance or randomness, which, according to its proponents, should…
Une défiguration contemporaine de la démocratie représentative
Les mouvements populistes transforment profondément la démocratie représentative contemporaine en jouant habilement (leur profit) avec ses règles du jeu. Pour comprendre ce phénomène paradoxal, l’article se concentre sur le statut qui est reconnu aux partis politiques dans la façon dont les mouvements populistes contemporains conçoivent la démocratie. Comment comprendre que la vision populiste de la démocratie soit si radicalement opposée à la po…
A Prehistory of Democracy
Petition
Teoría política del populismo
Cuando nos referimos al populismo, nos referimos a un fenómeno global proverbialmente difícil de definir. Se resiste a generalizaciones y hace que los expertos en política resulten comparativistas por necesidad, ya que su lenguaje y su contenido están empapados de la cultura política de la sociedad de la que surge. Un conjunto muy rico de análisis sociohistóricos nos permite situar al populismo dentro del fenómeno global llamado democracia, ya qu…
On the Necessity of Political Theory
On the necessity of political theory
How to write about populism
Conspiracy
Conspiracy:Systemic and Pragmatic Nadia Urbinati (bio) across democratic countries, but especially in the united states since the election of Donald Trump to the White House, we are witnessing a rampant conspiratorial mentality infiltrate political opinion, taking on a life of its own outside and beyond party structures. The internet and social media facilitate the infiltration of political opinion by conspiratorial mentality, while populism exac…
Teoria Política Do Populismo
Populismo é o nome de um fenômeno global cuja precariedade de definição é proverbial. Ele resiste a generalizações e torna os estudiosos da política comparativistas por necessidade, já que sua linguagem e conteúdo estão imbuídos da cultura política da sociedade em que surge. Um rico corpo de análises sócio-históricas nos permite situar o populismo dentro do fenômeno global denominado democracia, já que seu núcleo ideológico é nutrido pelas duas e…
Tirage au sort et dépolitisation
Traduits par Maud Harivel, les chapitres 6 et 7 de La Democrazia del sorteggio écrits par Nadia Urbinati, politologue italo-américaine, nous offre une réflexion précieuse sur les rapports complexes entre partis politiques et promotion du tirage au sort. En Italie, le mouvement mené par Guglielmo Giannini dans l’après-guerre fait déjà la promotion du tirage au sort dans l’optique d’une démocratie post-idéologique débarrassée des partis politiques.…
The Populist Substantialization of Popular Sovereignty
This paper argues that populism is a celebration of the myth of sovereignty; it reaches this conclusion by focusing on the populist form of representation as embodiment, a strategy that promises to overcome the gap that mandate representation creates between the elected and the people. The paper shows that this solution ends up being worse than the problem it seeks to solve
Le populisme au pouvoir
Le populisme au pouvoir en Italie attaque les fondements de la démocratie en opposant le peuple juste à ceux qui n'en font pas partie. Mais la démocratie peut se renouveler
Contemporary Poetry Archive
The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation
This is the first edited volume to provide a comprehensive introduction and a critical exploration of the constructivist turn in political representation. Divided into three thematic parts, the 13 newly commissioned essays presented here develop constructivist turn as a central concept advancing the insight that there can be no democratic politics without representation because constituencies, or groups, exist as agents of democratic politics onl…
The Concept of Representation in Contemporary Democratic Theory
Democratic theorists have paid increasing attention to problems of political representation over the past two decades. Interest is driven by (a) a political landscape within which electoral representation now competes with new and informal kinds of representation; (b) interest in the fairness of electoral representation, particularly for minorities and women; (c) a renewed focus on political judgment within democratic theory; and (d) a new apprec…
Political Theory of Populism
Populism is the name of a global phenomenon whose definitional precariousness is proverbial. It resists generalizations and makes scholars of politics comparativist by necessity, as its language and content are imbued with the political culture of the society in which it arises. A rich body of socio-historical analyses allows us to situate populism within the global phenomenon called democracy, as its ideological core is nourished by the two main…
Democracy and Populism
Representation as Advocacy
Sans remettre en question la valeur normative de la participation directe, l'A. defend la pertinence de la representation au regard de la dimension deliberative de la politique democratique. En reference au projet de J. S. Mill qui consiste a concilier gouvernement, representation proportionnelle et debat d'assemblee, l'A. developpe l'idee de deliberation comme defense du principe de l'egalite des chances politiques
Procedural Democracy, the Bulwark of Equal Liberty
This essay reclaims a political proceduralist vision of democracy as the best normative defense of democracy in contemporary politics. We distinguish this vision from three main approaches that are representative in the current academic debate: the epistemic conception of democracy as a process of truth seeking; the populist defense of democracy as a mobilizing politics that defies procedures; and the classical minimalist or Schumpeterian definit…
Unpolitical Democracy
This paper analyzes critically the appeal the unpolitical is enjoying among contemporary political philosophers who are democracy's friends. Unlike a radical critique of democracy, what I propose to call “criticism from within,” takes the form of dissatisfaction with the erosion of an independent mind and impartial judgment per effect of the partisan character of democratic politics. This paper proposes three main criticisms of the actual trend t…
A Revolt against Intermediary Bodies
O que torna a representação democrática
A autora, seguindo passos já dados por Bernard Manin e outros, mas introduzindo suas próprias inquietações, faz uma reflexão sobre a natureza da representação democrática, mostrando sua originalidade como forma de governo representativo. Seu esforço teórico, nesse sentido, é apontar as diferenças desse modelo em relação à 'democracia eleitoral', por um lado, e à 'democracia direta', por outro
Competing for Liberty
Freedom as non-domination has acquired a leading status in political science. As a consequence of its success, neo-roman republicanism also has achieved great prominence as the political tradition that delivered it. Yet despite the fact that liberty in the Roman mode was forged not only in direct confrontation with monarchy but against democracy as well, the relationship of republicanism to democracy is the great absentee in the contemporary deba…
From the Periphery of Modernity
Rejetant l'interpretation de la theorie de l'hegemonie d'A. Gramsci dans le sens d'une strategie leniniste d'homogeneite culturelle et d'harmonie communautaire, l'A. montre que l'enjeu de la position de Gramsci reside dans une inflexion de la politique d'emancipation de l'Italie du XIX e siecle, d'une part, et dans la visee de la modernite par-dela ses peripheries a travers une enquete sur les conditions socio-culturelles de la subordination et d…
The Populist Phenomenon
Le phénomène populiste Cet article propose un compte-rendu analytique du populisme. Il soutient que les composants qui en font un phénomène identifiable sont une simplification et une polarisation des divisions politiques afin de renforcer l’unification des masses contre les élites existantes, suivant un fil narratif incarné la plupart du temps par un leader. Le populisme est, par conséquent, à la fois interne à la démocratie représentative et un…
Continuity and Rupture
On Populism and Democracy
Populism became the name of a form of government after the demise of Fascism. As a political form located between constitutional government and dictatorship, it displays family resemblances with opposite political systems, like liberal democracy and fascism. Today, populism grows within both democratizing and fully democratic societies although it takes its most mature riling profile in representative democracies, which are its real target. Histo…
Crise e metamorfoses da democracia
Proponho uma síntese de meu livro, ainda em manuscrito, no qual exploro algumas das metamorfoses da democracia representativa tal como elas se desenvolvem no domínio da opinião. A democracia representativa é um sistema diárquico que tem dois pilares: "a decisão" e a "opinião". Os desafios das democracias constitucionais não decorrem tanto do primeiro deles (as regras do jogo), mas do segundo: o poder informal do julgamento político. Atualmente o …
Roundtable on Epistemic Democracy and Its Critics
On September 3, 2015, the Political Epistemology/Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics section of the American Political Science Association sponsored a roundtable on epistemic democracy as part of the APSA's annual meetings. Chairing the roundtable was Daniel Viehoff, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield. The other participants were Jack Knight, Department of Political Science and the Law School, Duke University; Hélène Landemore, Departme…
John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage
Liquid parties, dense populism
Before proceeding, I would like to clarify briefly two interpretative premises, one methodological and one normative, which sustain my argument. Understanding the transformations facing constitutional democratic societies is a demanding task. These transformations, whose multiple causes are socio-economic not merely political, reflect on the one hand in the decline of mass party form of organization and on the other in the success of populism as …
Condorcet’s Democratic Theory of Representative Government
The basic theoretical premise of this article is that representation does not necessarily imply a break with democratic principles. Its goal is to challenge the traditional liberal-elitist approach to representative government according to which this system is a mixed regime that is not identifiable with democracy since its main institution, election, is a mechanism that is inherently aristocratic, although it can be implemented in a democratic w…
Tirage au sort et dépolitisation
Traduits par Maud Harivel, les chapitres 6 et 7 de La Democrazia del sorteggio écrits par Nadia Urbinati, politologue italo-américaine, nous offre une réflexion précieuse sur les rapports complexes entre partis politiques et promotion du tirage au sort. En Italie, le mouvement mené par Guglielmo Giannini dans l’après-guerre fait déjà la promotion du tirage au sort dans l’optique d’une démocratie post-idéologique débarrassée des partis politiques.…
Laïcité in Reverse
Political Representation as a Democratic Process
In what follows I inquire into the conditions that make representation democratic, or a mode of political participation that can activate a variety of forms of citizen control and oversight. I make three main claims: that representation belongs to the history and practice of democratization; that different theories of representation are possible depending on the relationship between political institutions and social configurations; and that this …
Faith in Nation
Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. By Anthony W. Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 288p. $26.00. This is a bold and challenging study of European nationalism based on the following thesis: Nationalism was a phenomenon of state building that predated the eighteenth-century starting point favored by most scholars and whose genesis was elite pragmatism and popular mobilization. Moving the origins of nationalism back to …
Reflections on the Meaning of the “Crisis of Democracy”
This article addresses a question that sits at the heart of democracy studies today: What do we mean when we speak about a “crisis of democracy”? The article opens with introductory clarifications on the meanings of the concept of crisis—namely its root in medicine, and on three contemporary perspectives of democracy—trilateral, deliberative, and crisis. These perspectives are analyzed using monoarchic and diarchic distinctions. Next, the article…
Conspiracy
Conspiracy:Systemic and Pragmatic Nadia Urbinati (bio) across democratic countries, but especially in the united states since the election of Donald Trump to the White House, we are witnessing a rampant conspiratorial mentality infiltrate political opinion, taking on a life of its own outside and beyond party structures. The internet and social media facilitate the infiltration of political opinion by conspiratorial mentality, while populism exac…
Taking Sides
John Stuart Mill on Androgyny and Ideal Marriage
A common law of nations’
The aim of this article is to analyse the theoretical origins and character of Giuseppe Mazzini's idea of the nation and the wider tensions within nationalist thinking. In particular I will ground Mazzini's idea of national self‐determination on his distinction between rights and duties and finally his republican (and in this sense political, not ethnic) view of the nation‐people. It will emerge that, even if Mazzini shared a voluntaristic idea o…
From the Periphery of Modernity
Rejetant l'interpretation de la theorie de l'hegemonie d'A. Gramsci dans le sens d'une strategie leniniste d'homogeneite culturelle et d'harmonie communautaire, l'A. montre que l'enjeu de la position de Gramsci reside dans une inflexion de la politique d'emancipation de l'Italie du XIX e siecle, d'une part, et dans la visee de la modernite par-dela ses peripheries a travers une enquete sur les conditions socio-culturelles de la subordination et d…
Democracy and Populism
Representation as Advocacy
Sans remettre en question la valeur normative de la participation directe, l'A. defend la pertinence de la representation au regard de la dimension deliberative de la politique democratique. En reference au projet de J. S. Mill qui consiste a concilier gouvernement, representation proportionnelle et debat d'assemblee, l'A. developpe l'idee de deliberation comme defense du principe de l'egalite des chances politiques
The Cold War in the Italian left Introduction
Liberalism in the Cold War
In this article I study the theoretical impact of Cold War ideology on Italian democracy through the dialogue between Norberto Bobbio and the leaders of the Italian Communist Party in the mid-1950s, in particular the philosopher Galvano della Volpe and the General Secretary Palmiro Togliatti. I claim that Bobbio's choice of dialogue with the 'enemies' of the western model of democracy was in itself a criticism of the Cold War logic and its Manich…
Faith in Nation
Faith in Nation: Exclusionary Origins of Nationalism. By Anthony W. Marx. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 288p. $26.00. This is a bold and challenging study of European nationalism based on the following thesis: Nationalism was a phenomenon of state building that predated the eighteenth-century starting point favored by most scholars and whose genesis was elite pragmatism and popular mobilization. Moving the origins of nationalism back to …
Condorcet’s Democratic Theory of Representative Government
The basic theoretical premise of this article is that representation does not necessarily imply a break with democratic principles. Its goal is to challenge the traditional liberal-elitist approach to representative government according to which this system is a mixed regime that is not identifiable with democracy since its main institution, election, is a mechanism that is inherently aristocratic, although it can be implemented in a democratic w…
The Historian and the Ideologist
Continuity and Rupture
Representative Democracy
Political Representation as a Democratic Process
In what follows I inquire into the conditions that make representation democratic, or a mode of political participation that can activate a variety of forms of citizen control and oversight. I make three main claims: that representation belongs to the history and practice of democratization; that different theories of representation are possible depending on the relationship between political institutions and social configurations; and that this …
O que torna a representação democrática
A autora, seguindo passos já dados por Bernard Manin e outros, mas introduzindo suas próprias inquietações, faz uma reflexão sobre a natureza da representação democrática, mostrando sua originalidade como forma de governo representativo. Seu esforço teórico, nesse sentido, é apontar as diferenças desse modelo em relação à 'democracia eleitoral', por um lado, e à 'democracia direta', por outro
Divorce within Modernity - About Zeev Sternhell, Les anti-Lumières. Du XVIII e siècle à la guerre froide (Paris, Fayard, 2006)
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Politics as Deferred Presence
The Concept of Representation in Contemporary Democratic Theory
Democratic theorists have paid increasing attention to problems of political representation over the past two decades. Interest is driven by (a) a political landscape within which electoral representation now competes with new and informal kinds of representation; (b) interest in the fairness of electoral representation, particularly for minorities and women; (c) a renewed focus on political judgment within democratic theory; and (d) a new apprec…
Démocratie dépolitisée
A Cosmopolitanism of Nations
This anthology gathers Giuseppe Mazzini's most important essays on democracy, nation building, and international relations, including some that have never before been translated into English. These neglected writings remind us why Mazzini was one of the most influential political thinkers of the nineteenth century--and why there is still great benefit to be derived from a careful analysis of what he had to say. Mazzini (1805-1872) is best known t…
Interest Groups, Representation, and American Democracy
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Global Democracy
The idea that the values and norms of democracy can also be applied to global politics is increasingly debated in academe. The six authors participating in this symposium are all advocates of global democracy, but there are significant differences in the way they envision its implementation. Some of the contributors discuss if and how substantial changes undertaken by states, mostly in their foreign policies, may also generate positive consequenc…
Democracy Incorporated
Journal Article Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism by Sheldon S. Wolin Get access Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianismby Sheldon S. Wolin. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2008. 356pp. $29.95. Nadia Urbinati Nadia Urbinati Columbia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarte…
Representação como advocacy
Representação como advocacy: um estudo sobre deliberação democrática
Representative Democracy
Unpolitical Democracy
This paper analyzes critically the appeal the unpolitical is enjoying among contemporary political philosophers who are democracy's friends. Unlike a radical critique of democracy, what I propose to call “criticism from within,” takes the form of dissatisfaction with the erosion of an independent mind and impartial judgment per effect of the partisan character of democratic politics. This paper proposes three main criticisms of the actual trend t…
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