Melissa Schwartzberg
Silver Professor of Politics, NYU. Specialist in democratic theory. Supermajority rule skeptic before it was cool. Co-author of Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining (Harvard UP, 2024).
- Reposted by Melissa SchwartzbergI have an article forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science called, "Participatory Democracy & Its Limits." It focuses on limited citizen attention & how participation can backfire, w/ land use as an example. Abstract below; here's a preprint: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
- NYU Politics is hiring two visiting assistant professors, preferably in political theory, in support of civic education courses for the 2026-27 academic year. Feel free to reach out to me directly with any questions. apply.interfolio.com/179756
- Pleased to see the enduring influence of my late NYU colleague and teacher Russell Hardin - from Ezra Klein's column in today's NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/o...
- Delighted to announce that Democratic Deals is the co-recipient of the David Easton Award from APSA’s Foundation of Political Theory section!
- Grateful to Brook Manville for a terrific conversation about Democratic Deals: civicbargain.substack.com/p/can-better...
- Faculty fellow position at NYU in XE: Experimental Humanities and Social Engagement, open to political theorists: apply.interfolio.com/165002
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- Looking for restaurant recommendations in Athens and Istanbul - taking the teenagers, who prefer less elegant (e.g., no tasting menus), but otherwise very flexible.
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- When you're ready to look this up, Democratic Deals is waiting for you: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
- I believed we as a culture had transcended the reply-all storm, but a student managed to email the *entire NYU faculty* across schools. Guesses as to how many people have already responded to tell others to stop replying all, while acknowledging the irony of having done so?
- “And lo, did a cry of anguish rise from a stretch of Broadway between West 107th and 108th.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/n...
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- Watching the National Dog Show - next year's ancients class will definitely have a week called: "Is this chihuahua the highest expression of chihuahuaness?"
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- Sharing a paper that may hold interest/mild amusement value (for an *extremely* specific niche of political theorist), deploying Bentham in "Anarchical Fallacies" mode against epistemic democracy's incursion into constitutionalism: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/II32Y...
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- Reposting here: I am sorry to share the news that my beloved friend, teacher, and colleague Bernard Manin has died. He was an exceptional scholar, but even more remarkable was the care with which he treated literally every person he encountered - in the academy, or in a grocery store.
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- People, it is extremely important for me to share with you that in Love Is Blind 7, ep. 7, a couple has a deep and thoughtful discussion of the ethics of military service, in which the man invokes James Baldwin on patriotism and dissent. I SWEAR.
- 12-year-old devastated because we were scammed on StubHub for Gracie Abrams: our tickets were canceled without notice (presumably to be resold at a higher price). Stubhub will not provide alternative tickets because of price disparity, just a refund. No words.
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