Forum for European Philosophy &\; Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture
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The Infrastructure of Democracy
Wednesday 29 October\, 6.30 \;&ndash\; \;8pm
Senate Room\, first floor\, Senate House\, London WC1E 7HU \; \; \; \; \;
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Philip Pettit\, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values\, Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy\, Australian National University \; \; \; \;
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Chair: \;Gabriel Wollner\, Assistant Professor\, Department of Philosophy\, Logic and Scientific Method\, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow \;
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Democracy\, at its best\, requires the demos or people to have kratos or control. Since control involves not just influencing policy but also shaping it\, democracy in this sense is a very rich ideal\; it requires people to have an equally accessible form of influence that imposes on government policy an equally acceptable shape. Yet there are institutions that can deliver that result. They implement a modern version of the old republican ideal of a mixed constitution and a contestatory citizenry.
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