This collection of essays by Sheila Jasanoff explores how democratic governments construct public reason, that is, the forms of evidence and argument used in ma

This book offers an empirically detailed, cross-nationally comparative account of the institutional logics and practices through which modern democratic governm

"Public reason" is one of the central concepts in modern liberal political theory. As articulated by John Rawls, it presents a way to overcome the difficulties

MacGilvray argues that we should shift our attention away from the problem of identifying uncontroversial public ends in the present and toward the problem of e

A comprehensive study of public reason for courts, with contributions from leading scholars in philosophy, political science and law.