Nadia Urbinati

Nadia Urbinati

Research Interests

political theory
modern and contemporary political thought
Democracy
liberal socialism
positivism
liberalism
democratic and antidemocratic traditions
Italian thought
democratic individualism

Courses

Fall 2020

  • Modern Political Thought (4 credits)
    Political Science GU4134
    Interpretations of civil society and the foundations of political order according to the two main traditions of political thought--contraction and Aristotelian. Readings include works by Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, Montesquieu, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Saint-Simon, Tocqueville, Marx, and Mill.

     

Bio

Nadia Urbinati is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and founded and chaired the Workshop on Politics, Religion and Human Rights. She is co-editor with Andrew Arato of the journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization-Istanbul Seminars.

Education

  • PhD, European University Institute

Selected Publications

Books

  • Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy, and of Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government
  • Le civili libertá: Positivismo e liberalismo nell'Italia unita, prefaced by Norberto Bobbio
  • Individualismo democratico
  • Ai confini della democrazia: opportunità e rischi dell'universalismo democratico

Articles

  • “Comments: The Walls in the Heart of Europe and the Ghosts of the 20th Century,”The Federalist Debate, 11/1/2016, Volume 29, Issue 3, p. 8
  • “Relativist Democracy in an Age of Political Indifference,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, 6/1/2016, Volume 17, Issue 2-3, p. 274
  • “Reflections on the Meaning of the "Crisis of Democracy," Democratic Theory, 6/1/2016, Volume 3, Issue 1, p. 6
  • “Postscript,”International Social and Political Philosophy, 6/1/2016, Volume 19, Issue 3, p. 376
  • “Roundtable on Epistemic Democracy and Its Critics,” Knight, J, Landemore, H, Urbinati, N, Viehoff, CRITICAL REVIEW, 2016, Volume 28, Issue 2, p. 137
  • “Debating representative democracy,” Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, Alessandro Mulieri, Hubertus Buchstein, Dario Castiglione, Lisa Disch, Jason Frank, Yves Sintomer, Nadia Urbinati, Contemporary Political Theory, 5/1/2016, Volume 15, Issue 2, p. 205
  • “A pragmatic view of democratic proceduralism,” Global Discourse, 1/2/2016, Volume 6, Issue 1-2, p. 227
  • “Disuguaglianza,” Iride, 1/1/2016, Volume 29, Issue 77, p. 15
  • “A Revolt against Intermediary Bodies,” Constellations, 12/2015, Volume 22, Issue 4, p. 477
  • “Borderless Debate: The Greek Debt and the Need for a European Political Union. Who Betrayed Europe's Founders?,” The Federalist Debate, 11/1/2015,Volume 28, Issue 3, p. 48
  • “Response to Elizabeth Beaumont’s review of Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth, and the People,” Perspectives on Politics, 6/2015, Volume 13, Issue 2, p. 478
  • “an answer to my critics,” EUROPEAN POLITICAL SCIENCE, 6/2015, Volume 14, Issue 2, p. 173
  • “Il pensiero populista,” SOCIETÀ DEGLI INDIVIDUI (LA), 5/2015, Issue 52, p. 47
  • “EL FENÓMENO POPULISTA,” Desarrollo Económico, 5/1/2015,Volume 55, Issue 215, p. 3
  • “Risposta ai miei critici,” Notizie di Politeia, 2015, Volume 31, Issue 118, p. 72
  • "Provare che Amleto aveva torto": il dubbio e la scelta,” PASSATO E PRESENTE, 6/2014, Issue 92, p. 82
  • “provare che Amleto aveva torto»: il dubbio e la scelta,” Passato e Presente, 2014, Volume 32, Issue 92, p. 82
  • “The Populist Phenomenon,” Raisons politiques, 9/26/2013, Volume 51, Issue 3, p. 137
  • “Mobilisations en réseaux, activisme numérique : les nouvelles attentes participatives,”Urbinati, Nadia, Béja, Alice, Esprit, 2013, Volume Août/septembre, Issue 8, p. 87
  • “Acceptance and mistrust: representative democracy in the internet age,” Transit, 7/1/2013, Volume 44, p. 25
  • “Procedural Democracy, the Bulwark of Equal Liberty,” Author Maria Paula Saffon, Nadia Urbinati, Political Theory, 6/1/2013, Volume 41, Issue 3, p. 441
  • “Sismonde de Sismondi's aristocratic republicanism,” European Journal of Political Theory, 4/2013, Volume 12, Issue 2, p. 153
  • “The Populist Phenomenon,”Raisons politiques, 2013, Volume 51, Issue 3, p. 137
  • “Da democracia dos partidos ao plebiscito da audience,” Lua Nova: Revista de Cultura e Política, 1/1/2013, Issue 89, p. 85
  • “Crisis and metamorphoses of democracy,” Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais, 1/1/2013, Volume 28, Issue 82, p. 05
  • “Competing for Liberty: The Republican Critique of Democracy,” The American Political Science Review, 8/1/2012, Volume 106, Issue 3, p. 607
  • “From party democracy to the plebiscite of the audience,” Parole chiave, 6/1/2012, Volume 47, p. 7
  • “Why parité is a better goal than quotas,” International Journal of Constitutional Law, 3/2012, Volume 10, Issue 2, p. 465
  • “Mazzini and the making of the republican ideology,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 3/1/2012, Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 183
  • “The transformation of republicanism in modern and contemporary Italy,” Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 3/1/2012,Volume 17, Issue 2, p. 145
  • “Rousseau on the Risks of Representing the Sovereign,” Politische Vierteljahresschrift, 1/1/2012, Volume 53, Issue 4, p. 646
  • “Republicanism after the French Revolution: The Case of Sismonde de Sismondi,” Journal of the History of Ideas, 1/1/2012, Volume 73, Issue 1, p. 95
  • “Regimes of memory distance, identity and the liberty of the citizen,” Iris, 4/2011,Volume 3, Issue 5, p. 141
  • “Republicanism: Democratic or Popular?,” The Good Society, 2011, Volume 20, Issue 2, p. 157
  • “Public opinion and democratic legitimacy,” Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 10/1/2010, Volume 51, Issue 4, p. 547
  • “Representation as Advocacy: A Study on Democratic Deliberation,” Politica & Sociedade: Revista de Sociologia Politica, 4/1/2010, ISSN: 1677-4140, Volume 9, Issue 16, p. 51
  • “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism,”
  • Political Science Quarterly, 2010, Volume 125, Issue 1, p. 171
  • “Laïcité in Reverse: Mono-Religious Democracies and the Issue of Religion in the Public Sphere,” Constellations, 3/1/2010,Volume 17, Issue 1, p. 4
  • “Global Democracy: A Symposium on a New Political Hope,”Archibugi, Daniele, Urbinati, Nadia, Zürn, Michael, Marchetti, Raffaele, Macdonald, Terry, Jacobs, Didier, New Political Science, 3/1/2010, Volume 32, Issue 1, p. 83
  • “Unpolitical Democracy,” Political Theory, 2/1/2010, Volume 38, Issue 1, p. 65

 

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