Jane Mansbridge

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Office Address
Taubman-468
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 103
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-495-9343
Fax: 617-496-9053
Email: jane_mansbridge@Harvard.Edu
Assistant
Matthew Salesses (617-495-0868)
Jane Mansbridge

Profile

Jane J. Mansbridge, Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest,Feminism, and Oppositional Consciousness. Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of collective action problems.

Courses

Spring

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Research

For a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.

Selected Publication Citations:

  • Book Chapters
    • Mansbridge, Jane. ""Deliberative Democracy" or "Democratic Deliberation?"." Deliberation, Participation, and Democracy: Can the People Govern? Ed. Shawn W. Rosenberg. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 251-272.
    • Mansbridge, Jane, and Susan Moller Okin. "Feminism." A Companion to Contemporary Political Theory, 2nd ed. Eds. Robert Goodin, Philip Pettit and Thomas Pogge. Blackwell, 2007, 332-359.
    • Mansbridge, Jane. "Carole Pateman: Radical Liberal?" Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carol Pateman. Ed. Daniel O'Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris Marion Young. Penn State University Press, 2008, 17-30.
  • HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
    • Mansbridge, Jane. "Deliberative and Non-Deliberative Negotiations." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP09-010, April 7, 2009.