Despite the fact that I am on the Editorial Board of The Journal of Public Deliberation (http://services.bepress.com/jpd/), it took googling myself to find this new review of my book by OSU law professor Peter Shane (a major figure in the e-democracy movement): http://services.bepress.com/jpd/vol1/iss1/art10/. [Sorry for the inability to link–a Mac-related problem that happens when I am in New York]
He botched some of the details (seeing ambiguity in decision rules when I’m pretty sure I was clear about aggregative mechanisms; suggesting my use of Michelman was something less than fully self-conscious; failing to realize that I tried to make very clear that I envisioned my proposal to reform local democracy and direct democracy states before taking on national governmental reorganziation). But his substantive thrust is very useful and I find very little with which I would really disagree. Highly recommended.
Posted by Ethan Leib on September 30, 2005 at 07:05 PM