Books
Politics without Politicians
with Thesis (USA) from Penguin-Random House, Allen Lane (UK), and Uitgeverij Atlas Contact (The Netherlands)
2026 (editing stage)
DEBATING DEMOCRACY
Do We Need More or Less?
with Jason Brennan
2021 (forthcoming in French translation Eliott editions)
OPEN DEMOCRACY Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century
2020 (Translated in Spanish by Zela Editorial, in Korean by The Tomorrow publishing company, in Italian Ariele, and in Japanese)
DEMOCRATIC REASON
Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
2013 (forthcoming in Spanish by Grano de Sal, 2026 and in Japanese by Keiso Shobo, 2027)
HUME
Probability and Reasonable Choice
2004
Edited volumes
CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLIES, A NEW FORM OF DEMOCRATIC REPRESENTATION? in Participations
with Jean-Michel Fourniau
2022
Peer-reviewed articles
“How will advanced AI systems impact democracy?” with Christopher Summerfield (Oxford), Michiel A.Bakker et al., arXiv:2409.06729, submitted August 27 2024
“‘Co-construction’ in Deliberative Democracy: Lessons from the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate,” with Louis-Gaëtan Giraudet, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9(207), 2022
“When Public Participation Matters: the 2010-2013 Icelandic Constitutional Process,” International Journal of Constitutional Law, 2020.
“The Crisis of Democracy and the Science of Deliberation,” with John S Dryzek, André Bächtiger, Simone Chambers, Joshua Cohen, James N Druckman, Andrea Felicetti, James S Fishkin, David M Farrell, Archon Fung, Amy Gutmann, Jane Mansbridge, Sofie Marien, Michael A Neblo, Simon Niemeyer, Maija Setälä, Rune Slothuus, Jane Suiter, Dennis Thompson, and Mark E Warren, Science 363(6432), 1144-1146, 2019
“When Public Participation Matters: the 2010-2013 Icelandic Constitutional Process,” International Journal of Constitutional Law, forthcoming (accepted September 6, 2018)
“Referendums Are Never Merely Referendums: On the Need to Make Popular Vote Processes More Deliberative.” Swiss Review of Political Science 24(3): 320–327, 2018
“Political Epistemology in the Age of Alternative Facts: On World-Building, Truth-Tracking, and Arendtian Vacillations in Linda Zerilli’s A Democratic Theory of Judgment”, Political Theory 46(4): 611-623, 2018. Symposium on Linda Zerilli’s book A Democratic Theory of Judgment
"Inclusive Constitution-Making and Religious Rights: Lessons from the Icelandic Experiment,” Journal of Politics 79(3): 762-779, 2017.
“Beyond the Fact of Disagreement? The Epistemic Turn in Deliberative Democracy,” Journal of Social Epistemology 31(3): 277-295, 2017.
“Unmasking the Crowd: Participants’ Motivation Factors, Expectations, and Profile in a Crowdsourced Law Reform” (with Tanja Aitamurto and Jorge S. Galli), Information, Communication, and Society 20(8), 2017: 1239-60.
“Crowdsourced Deliberation: The Case of an Off-Traffic Law Reform in Finland” (with Tanja Aitamurto), Policy & Internet 8(2), 2016: 174-196.
"Toward a Justification of the Firm-State Analogy: In Defense of Workplace Democracy" (with Isabelle Ferreras), Political Theory 44(1), 2016: 53-81.
"Inclusive Constitution-Making: The Icelandic Experiment," Journal of Political Philosophy 23(2), 2015: 166-191.
“Deliberation and Disagreement: Problem Solving, Prediction, and Positive Dissensus” (with Scott E. Page), Philosophy, Politics, and Economics 14(3), 2015: 229-254.
"Neither Blind Nor Mute: Why the People Must Not Give Up on the Voice," Political Theory 42(2), 2014: 192-197. Symposium on Jeffrey Green's The Eyes of the People.
“Deliberation, Cognitive Diversity, and Democratic Inclusiveness: An Epistemic Argument for the Random Selection of Representatives,”
Synthese 190 (7), 2013: 1209-1231.“Reasoning is for Arguing: Explaining the Successes and Failures of Deliberation” (with Hugo Mercier), Political Psychology 33, 2012: 243-258.
"Politics and the Economist-King: Is Rational Choice Theory the Science of Choice?” Journal of Moral Philosophy 1(2), 2004: 185-207.
Invited/Other
“How to Implement Shareholder Democracy,” (with Oliver Hart and Luigi Zingales), Chicago Booth, Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State, November 2024.
“AI and the Future of Digital Public Squares,” (with Beth Goldberg et al.) ArXiv.org 2024
“Citizens’ Assemblies, a New Form of Democratic Representation,” (with Jean-Michel Fourniau) Participations 34, 2023.
“The Principles of Open Democracy,” Indice Annale LIII, Special Issue on The Future of Democracy edited by Nadia Urbinati and Michele Battini, 2020.
“What does it mean to take diversity seriously?,” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy 16, 2019: 795-805.
“Deliberative Democracy as Open, Not (Just) Representative Democracy,” Daedalus, special issue on “Deliberative Democracy: Prospects and Challenges” edited by Jim Fishkin and Jane Mansbridge, 146(3): 51-63, Summer 2017.
“Five Design Principles for Crowdsourced Policymaking: Assessing the Case of Crowdsourced Off-Road Traffic Law in Finland” (with Tanja Aitamurto), Journal of Social Media for Organization 2(1): 1-19, 2015.
“Democracy as Heuristic: the Ecological Rationality of Political Equality,” The Good Society 23(2): 160-178, 2014.
“Yes We Can (Make It Up On Volume): Reply to Critics,” Critical Review 6 (1-2), 2014.
"On Minimal Deliberation, Partisan Activism, and Teaching People How to Disagree: Reflections on Diana Mutz’s Hearing the Other Side,” Critical Review 25(2), 2013: 210-225.
"Talking It Out with Others vs. Deliberation within and the Law of Group Polarization: Some Implications of the Argumentative Theory of Reasoning for Deliberative Democracy" (with Hugo Mercier), Analise Social 205, xlvii (4.º), 2012: 910- 93.
“Why the Many Are Smarter than the Few and Why It Matters,” Journal of Public Deliberation: 8(1), 2012, art. 7.
“Ideology and Dystopia” (with Jon Elster), Critical Review 20(3), November 2008.
“Is representative democracy really democratic?” / “La démocratie représentative : contradiction dans les termes ou essence de la démocratie?” Interview of Bernard Manin and Nadia Urbinati in booksandideas.net (English version of laviedesidees.fr).
Book chapters
“Inductive Political Theory” for Political Theory and Empirical Political Science edited by David Miller and Alice Baderin for Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2025)
“Can AI bring deliberation to the masses?" in Ruth Chang and Amia Srinivasan (eds) Conversations in Philosophy, Law and Politics, Oxford, Oxford University Press 2024
“No Decarbonization without Democratization: to Save the Planet, Open Democracy.” In Democracy in a Hotter Time (ed. David Orr), Cambridge, MIT Press, 2023.
“Democratize,” in I. Ferreras, J. Battilana, and D. Méda (eds), Democratize Work: the Case for Reorganizing the Economy. Chicago: Chicago University Press 2022. Original book in French as Le Manifeste Travail (Paris: Le Seuil 2021). Translated in Portuguese, Basque, Turkish, Italian, and German.
“An Epistemic Argument for Democracy,” in M. Hannon and J. de Ridder (eds), Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology, London: Routledge, 2021
“Open Democracy and Digital Technologies,” in Landemore, Reich, and Bernholz (eds) Democratic Theory and Digital Technologies, Chicago University Press, 2019 (forthcoming in Arabic).
“The Epistemic Value of Democratic Deliberation” (with David Estlund), in André Bächtiger, John S. Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren (eds). Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, 2018.
“What is a Good Constitution? Assessing the Icelandic Constitutional Proposal,” in Tom Ginsburg and Aziz Huq, Assessing Constitutional Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 71-98, 2016.
“Inclusive Constitution-Making: Epistemic Considerations on the Icelandic Experiment,” Experiments in Democracy – Iceland in crisis and recovery (Jón Ólafsson ed): Reykjavík: University of Iceland Press & Bifröst University, 2014.
“Two Concepts of Order: An Essay on Harmony and Order versus Spontaneity and Revolt in Western Thought,” in Wayne Cristaudo, Heung Wah Wong, and Sun Youzhong, Order and Revolt: East West Approaches, Hong Kong University Press, 2014.
“Collective Wisdom: Old and New (Introduction),” in Landemore and Elster, Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms, see edited volume.
“Democratic Reason: the Mechanisms of Collective Intelligence in Politics,” in Landemore and Elster, Collective Wisdom: Principles and Mechanisms, see edited volume.
“Why one should reject the motion intending to remove animals from the status of property,” in Fiery Cushman, Marc D. Hauser, and Matthew Kamen (eds), People, Property, or Pets? Purdue University Press, 2006.
Book reviews
“The Argumentative Turn Revisited: Public Policy as Communicative Practice, by Frank Fischer & Herbert Gottweis,” Perspectives on Politics, 2014.
“Truth and Democracy, by Andrew Norris & Jeffrey Elkins,” Contemporary Political Theory (2014) 13, e7–e11. doi:10.1057/cpt.2013.22.
“The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship, by Jeffrey Edward Green,” Political Communication 28(03), 2011: 402-406.
“Against Injustice : The New Economics of Amartya Sen, by Reiko Gotoh and Paul Dumouchel (eds),” Journal of Economic Literature, December 2010.
Encyclopedia entries
“Causation,” Encyclopedia entry for the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Philosophy (Michael T. Gibbons ed), 2012.
“Jon Elster,” Encyclopedia entry for the Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Philosophy (Michael T. Gibbons ed), 2012.
“Political Authority,” in Deen K. Chatterjee (ed), Encyclopedia of Global Justice, Springer: 201.