Democratic Listening Principles, Practices, and Possibilities

Mary F. (Molly) Scudder is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. She is the author of Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation (2020) and co-author of The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation (2023).

Michael A. Neblo is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Political at Ohio State University, where he directs the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA). He is the author of Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice (2015) and co-author of Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy (2018).