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John Dunn

John Dunn is professor of political theory at the University of Cambridge. His books include Setting the People Free: The Story of Democracy ( Atlantic Books, 2005 )

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Getting democracy into focus

The very potency of democracy as word and idea creates an impulse to extend it beyond plausible limits, and this is at the root of the flaws in Anthony Barnett & Isabel Hilton’s article. John Dunn, professor of political theory at the University of Cambridge, continues openDemocracy’s debate.