The Infrastructure of Democracy

Philip Pettit (Princeton University )

Forum for European Philosophy & Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture

The Infrastructure of Democracy

Wednesday 29 October, 6.30 – 8pm
Senate Room, first floor, Senate House, London WC1E 7HU      
 
Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values, Princeton University and Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Australian National University     
 
Chair: Gabriel Wollner, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, LSE and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow  
 
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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