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John F. Kennedy School of Government
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Cambridge, MA 02138
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
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Research
Research for a complete list of faculty citations from 2001 - present, please visit the Harvard Kennedy School Research Report Online.
Selected Publication Citations:
- Academic Journals
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Mansbridge, Jane. "Self-Interest in Deliberation." Kettering
Review 25.1 (Winter 2007): 62-72.
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Mansbridge, Jane, Janette Hartz-Karp, Matthew Amengual, and John
Gastil. "Norms of Deliberation: An Inductive Study." Journal of
Public Deliberation 2.1 (April 2006): 1-47.
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Mansbridge, Jane. "Quota Problems: Combating the Dangers of
Essentialism." Politics and Gender 1.4 (December 2005):
622-638.
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Mansbridge, Jane, and Katherine Flaster. "The Cultural Politics of
Everyday Discourse: The Case of 'Male Chauvinist.'" Critical
Sociology 33.4 (2007): 627-660.
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Mansbridge, Jane. "Conflicto y Autointerés en la Deliberación."
Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica 10.1 (2007).
- Book Chapters
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Mansbridge, Jane. "Conflict and Self-Interest in Deliberation."
Deliberative Democracy and Its Discontents. Ed. Samantha
Besson and Jose Luis Marti. Ashgate Publishing Group, October 2006,
107-132.
- Research Papers/Reports
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Mansbridge, Jane. "A 'Selection Model' of Political
Representation." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series
RWP08-010, February 2008.