Books written by Nadia Urbinati

Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy

In Me the People, Nadia Urbinati argues that populism should be regarded as a new form of representative government, one based on a direct relationship between the leader and those the leader defines as the “good” or “right” people.
Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy

But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...
J.S. Mill's Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment

This book aims to correct such neglect, by illustrating the breadth and depth of Mill's political writings, by drawing together a collection of essays whose authors explore underappreciated elements of Mill's political philosophy.
Machiavelli on Liberty and Conflict

Beginning of the Quattrocento (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1949), 181–84 (see E. Garin, Scienza e vita civile nel Rinascimento italiano [Bari: Laterza, 1965], 11–12). 31. In Niccolò Machiavelli, Selected Political Writings, ...
The Tyranny of the Moderns

Precisely on account of its paradoxical nature, however, this approach may serve to open up interesting prospects for analysis regarding the risks to democratic liberty incubated within modern society.
Democrazia sfigurata: Il popolo fra opinione e verità

La rinnovata attrazione per l'impolitico che caratterizza la teoria contemporanea della democrazia è un nuovo capitolo di quella storia. Le insoddisfazioni per la trasformazione epistemica del discorso politico nella teoria deliberativa ...
Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy

But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...
Yo, el pueblo: Cómo el populismo transforma la democracia

Nadia Urbinati explora en Yo, el pueblo el espíritu antisistema del populismo, su tendencia a proclamar la existencia en la sociedad de una parte "buena" —y por contraste una "mala"—, el avasallante protagonismo de sus líderes, el ...
Liberal Socialism

During his confinement for his anti-fascist beliefs, the Italian political philosopher Carlo Rosselli (1899-1937) wrote this work not only as a critique of fascism, but also as an investigation into the history of Marxism and the need for a ...
Democracy Disfigured

In Democracy Disfigured, Nadia Urbinati diagnoses the ills that beset the body politic in an age of hyper-partisanship and media monopolies and offers a spirited defense of the messy compromises and contentious outcomes that define ...
Condorcet: Political Writings

This volume contains a revised translation of 'The Sketch', written while in hiding from the Jacobin Terror, together with lesser-known writings on the emancipation of women, the abolition of slavery, the meanings of freedom and despotism ...
The Tyranny of the Moderns

... La politica del rispetto: I fondamenti etici della democrazia, Rome: Laterza, 2010, p. 4. 7. Thus Koenraad W. Swart, “'Individualism' in the Mid-Nineteenth Century (1826–1860),” Journal of the History of Ideas 23, 1962, p. 78; Joseph de ...
Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy

But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to ...
Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government

Redirecting attention to Mill as a political thinker, Nadia Urbinati argues that this claim misrepresents Mill's thinking.