Stuart White is Associate Professor of Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, which he joined in 2000 after three years at MIT where he gained a Career Development Research Award for his teaching. His research focuses centrally on democracy, citizenship and property rights and the question of what rights to resources we should have as members of a democratic community. Relevant publications include Radical Republicanism, co-edited with Bruno Leipold and Karma Nabulsi, forthcoming,and Building a Citizen Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Co-edited with Daniel Leighton. 2008.
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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionThe people, not Parliament, should choose a new voting systemBritish progressives demand proportional representation. But we need to talk about how we want to introduce it.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Taking deliberation seriously: ‘considered judgment’ from the Brexit referendum to the pandemicOn the 2019 UK elections, popular sovereignty, and citizens’ assemblies. A conversation with Stuart White.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMaking a New Constitution: The Citizens’ Convention on UK Democracy: Part 2The Citizens’ Convention offers a welcome space for public sovereignty over our future constitution – but as...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKMaking a new constitution: The Citizens’ Convention on UK Democracy: Part 1Last week, we successfully defended the UK parliament. But to get out of the ongoing constitutional crises, we need...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKHow to get out of a gigantic mess - of Brexit, citizens assemblies, and popular sovereigntyThe UK is in a mess thanks to an ill-defined ‘Leave’ option in the Brexit vote. More genuine popular sovereignty...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill a constitutional convention democratically refound the British state?Some of the political parties are calling for a constitutional convention. But a convention can mean different...