My current book manuscript, The People’s Two Powers, traces the history of the distinction between public opinion and popular sovereignty from Rousseau to the invention of liberal democracy in France, and explores its relevance for contemporary debates in democratic theory.

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My next book project, Propaganda and Democracy: A History, tells the story of how we came to think about these two notions as stellar opposites in the aftermath of WWII, and what this means for contemporary democratic thought.