Robert Dahl’s On Democracy is a handbook of sorts setting out the basics of his vision of democracy. He more or less articulates a liberal pluralist version of democracy without using that term specifically. The term he does use, polyarchal democracy, he describes as a political system that …

Given the extent of globalization, I’m often surprised when a solution which is obviously better is applied in one place and not another. The case I want to talk about here is the solution to the problem of seating a lot of people in your house. In the U.S., if you want to have any sort of …

I am trying to track my thinking over time in how to model the behaviour of churches in response to public opinion changes on a given issue. Part 1 and Part 2 show that this has been a longer process than I anticipated. I am still trying to use the two-dimensional framework that I used in Part 2, …