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
Paul Yoon (617-495-3919)
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

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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
    • Mansbridge, Jane. "Self-Interest in Deliberation." Kettering Review 25.1 (Winter 2007): 62-72.
    • 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.
    • Mansbridge, Jane. "Quota Problems: Combating the Dangers of Essentialism." Politics and Gender 1.4 (December 2005): 622-638.
    • Mansbridge, Jane, and Katherine Flaster. "The Cultural Politics of Everyday Discourse: The Case of 'Male Chauvinist.'" Critical Sociology 33.4 (2007): 627-660.
    • Mansbridge, Jane. "Conflicto y Autointerés en la Deliberación." Revista Argentina de Teoría Jurídica 10.1 (2007).
  • Book Chapters
    • 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
    • Mansbridge, Jane. "A 'Selection Model' of Political Representation." HKS Faculty Research Working Paper Series RWP08-010, February 2008.