Full Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
I’m currently a Full Professor in the Political Science department at Yale University and a Faculty Fellow with Yale’s Institute for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), where I founded a research program on Citizens' Assemblies and the “Governing x” conference series.
I’m also Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford, England. In 2023 I served as an advisor to the Democratic Inputs to AI program at OpenAI. I am currently undertaking work supported by Schmidt Futures through the AI2050 program.
My research and teaching interests include democratic theory, constitutional theory, political epistemology, and the ethics and politics of AI.
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Open Democracy
Princeton University Press
Release: October 13, 2020
Open Democracy develops a new paradigm of democracy in which the exercise of power is as little gated as possible, even as it depends on representative structures to make it possible. In this version of popular rule, power is equally open to all, as opposed to just those who happen to stand out in the eyes of others (as in electoral democracies). The book centrally defends the use of non-electoral yet democratic forms of representation, including “lottocratic,” “self-selected,” and “liquid” representation.
Ezra Klein Interviews Hélène Landemore
A Radical Proposal for True Democracy. What if the solution to our dysfunctional politics is to get rid of the politicians?
New York Times’ The Ezra Klein Show.” on Feb. 23, 2021
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