David Ragazzoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 1699636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Ragazzoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Ragazzoni |
| SIGNATURE | RAGAZZONI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9697-308X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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…
Parties and Representative Government
My contribution builds on Fernanda Gallo's most recent book to alert to its significance for political theorists working on historical and contemporary debates on representative government and democracy. Doing so, it argues, entails a threefold endeavor. First, it requires actively challenging the conventional marginalization that, with the exception of a few canonical figures (e.g., Machiavelli, Beccaria, Gramsci), has relegated Italian thinkers…
Rethinking Party Democracy in the Age of Populism
Political parties are the core institution of democratic politics. Yet, they are also democracy’s most discredited ones, with episodes of corruption cutting widely across the political spectrum and significantly undermining their legitimacy in the eyes of citizens. Are parties doomed or is there a way out for them? This article explores the reasons for the demise of party democracy in the early 21st century; resists both the anti-party Zeitgeist …
Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
This essay offers a review of Jeremy Jennings's latest monograph, which navigates the waters of Tocqueville’s life and thought through the distinctive prism of travelling. The famous voyage that took him and Gustave de Beaumont to the United States in 1831 and that set the groundwork for the two volumes of his most famous work has in fact overshadowed the multiple journeys that he made throughout his relatively short but intense life. In retrievi…
Introduction
Constitutional (liberal) democracy pursues an ambitious project. It weaves together majority rule and minority rights and encapsulates a political and institutional organization of public life deliberately orchestrated to guarantee and safeguard rights and freedoms, the peaceful resolution of social and political conflict, and the widest-possible participation of citizens in democratic self-rule. Critical for these goals are procedural mechanisms…
Parties, Democracy, and the Ideal of Anti-factionalism
This essay weaves together the history of political and legal thought, contemporary democratic theory, and recent debates in legal scholarship to examine the ambivalent relationship between political parties and democracy. Celebrated as a structural necessity for the mechanics of democratic government, political parties are also handled with suspicion for their hybrid nature—neither entirely public nor completely private—and for their always-poss…
Equality, liberty, justice
Bobbio’s democratic vision warrants scrutiny not simply as a theory of procedural democracy, but also for its critical study of political ideologies (historical and contemporary) and its ambition to reconcile some of their driving ideals. This article draws the attention of Anglophone scholars to Bobbio’s life-long endeavour to merge the competing agendas of liberalism and socialism and thus develop a democratic theory capable of merging producti…
Norberto Bobbio
The populist leader's two bodies
Silvio Spaventa and Marco Minghetti on party government
This article contextualizes, explores, and compares a selection of writings on party government and the modern State authored throughout the 1880s by two major representatives of post-Risorgimento Italian liberalism – Silvio Spaventa (1822–1893) and Marco Minghetti (1818–1886). Its comparative analysis unveils two alternative paths for taming factionalism and securing political freedom in modern representative governments: the strategy of monism …
Power, politics, and geopolitics
The Ontology of Power, the Failure of Modernity
in front of every chamber of direct power an antechamber of indirect influences and powers constructs itself, a path of access to the ear, a corridor to the soul of the holder of power.Carl Schmitt, Dialogue on Power
Democratic legitimacy
The populist leader's two bodies
Silvio Spaventa and Marco Minghetti on party government
This article contextualizes, explores, and compares a selection of writings on party government and the modern State authored throughout the 1880s by two major representatives of post-Risorgimento Italian liberalism – Silvio Spaventa (1822–1893) and Marco Minghetti (1818–1886). Its comparative analysis unveils two alternative paths for taming factionalism and securing political freedom in modern representative governments: the strategy of monism …
Democratic legitimacy
Democratic legitimacy
The Ontology of Power, the Failure of Modernity
in front of every chamber of direct power an antechamber of indirect influences and powers constructs itself, a path of access to the ear, a corridor to the soul of the holder of power.Carl Schmitt, Dialogue on Power
Power, politics, and geopolitics
Silvio Spaventa and Marco Minghetti on party government
This article contextualizes, explores, and compares a selection of writings on party government and the modern State authored throughout the 1880s by two major representatives of post-Risorgimento Italian liberalism – Silvio Spaventa (1822–1893) and Marco Minghetti (1818–1886). Its comparative analysis unveils two alternative paths for taming factionalism and securing political freedom in modern representative governments: the strategy of monism …
The populist leader's two bodies
Introduction
Constitutional (liberal) democracy pursues an ambitious project. It weaves together majority rule and minority rights and encapsulates a political and institutional organization of public life deliberately orchestrated to guarantee and safeguard rights and freedoms, the peaceful resolution of social and political conflict, and the widest-possible participation of citizens in democratic self-rule. Critical for these goals are procedural mechanisms…
Parties, Democracy, and the Ideal of Anti-factionalism
This essay weaves together the history of political and legal thought, contemporary democratic theory, and recent debates in legal scholarship to examine the ambivalent relationship between political parties and democracy. Celebrated as a structural necessity for the mechanics of democratic government, political parties are also handled with suspicion for their hybrid nature—neither entirely public nor completely private—and for their always-poss…
Equality, liberty, justice
Bobbio’s democratic vision warrants scrutiny not simply as a theory of procedural democracy, but also for its critical study of political ideologies (historical and contemporary) and its ambition to reconcile some of their driving ideals. This article draws the attention of Anglophone scholars to Bobbio’s life-long endeavour to merge the competing agendas of liberalism and socialism and thus develop a democratic theory capable of merging producti…
Norberto Bobbio
Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America
This essay offers a review of Jeremy Jennings's latest monograph, which navigates the waters of Tocqueville’s life and thought through the distinctive prism of travelling. The famous voyage that took him and Gustave de Beaumont to the United States in 1831 and that set the groundwork for the two volumes of his most famous work has in fact overshadowed the multiple journeys that he made throughout his relatively short but intense life. In retrievi…
Rethinking Party Democracy in the Age of Populism
Political parties are the core institution of democratic politics. Yet, they are also democracy’s most discredited ones, with episodes of corruption cutting widely across the political spectrum and significantly undermining their legitimacy in the eyes of citizens. Are parties doomed or is there a way out for them? This article explores the reasons for the demise of party democracy in the early 21st century; resists both the anti-party Zeitgeist …
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…
Parties and Representative Government
My contribution builds on Fernanda Gallo's most recent book to alert to its significance for political theorists working on historical and contemporary debates on representative government and democracy. Doing so, it argues, entails a threefold endeavor. First, it requires actively challenging the conventional marginalization that, with the exception of a few canonical figures (e.g., Machiavelli, Beccaria, Gramsci), has relegated Italian thinkers…
Politics (12 works) · Democracy (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Political Theology and Sovereignty (5 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works)