Democratic Representation Beyond Elections

Please join the Murphy Institute for a lecture by award-winning author and Yale professor Hélène Landemore.

Hélène Landemore is Associate Professor of Political Science at Yale University.

Her first book Hume: Probabilité et Choix Raisonnable was a philosophical investigation of David Hume’s theory of decision-making. Her second book, Democratic Reason, won the Montreal Manuscript Workshop Award in 2011; the Elaine and David Spitz Prize in 2015; and the 2018 APSA “Ideas, Knowledge, and Politics” section book award.   Professor Landemore’s third book–Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the 21st Century–is under contract with Princeton University Press.

This lecture is free and open to the public with a reception to follow.