Larvatus Prodeo

As Obama’s liberal supporters wait uneasily for January 20 to find out whether he really will use his post-partisan stance as a sweetener to implement progressive policy, Crooked Timber blogger and political scientist Henry Farrell has published a rather fascinating article on the uses of partisanship in increasing political participation. Farrell has some fascinating insights on the failures of deliberative democracy and the role of political blogs:

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