From its ancient provenance, democracy has always provoked anxieties of excess, lawlessness, and spontaneity, and thus also the anxiety of having within itself the disruptive energy to unsettle any stable regime of power (Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, Polybius). One characteristic ancient (and modern) way of contending with these anxieties was by conjoining the idea of democracy […]
Uday Singh Mehta
Uday Singh Mehta is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City University of New York, and serves on the Anxieties of Democracy program’s Advisory Committee.