Nadia Urbinati

Nadia Urbinati teaches political theory at Columbia University and is most recently the author of Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People (2014) and The Tyranny of the Moderns (2015). Her new book Me The People: How Populism Transforms Democracy will be published in summer 2019 by Harvard University Press.

Charta 2020: A Charter of European Public Goods

To mark Europe Day, 2019 – Charta 2020 is a vision for a democratic and egalitarian European Union, and a demand to recognize 20 European public goods that are essential to the reshaping of any future European political space.

By Nadia Urbinati, Caterina Di Fazio, Etienne Balibar and Rui Tavares

/ 8 May 2019

Charta 2020: A Charter of European Public Goods

For a political Europe

A political Europe doesn’t exist, and one cannot pretend it is there, as both neo-liberals and sovranists do. An Agora Europe meditation for Europe Day, 2019.

By Nadia Urbinati and Caterina Di Fazio

/ 7 May 2019

Words matter

Despite the avalanche of words that we have all been reading and hearing since 11 September, all too little attention has been paid to the present importance of using them

By Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati

/ 29 Nov 2001