#  Jane J. Mansbridge 

Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, Harvard Kennedy School

 

 

 



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 laptop\_windows [Harvard Kennedy School Profile](https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/jane-mansbridge) 

 

 



 

Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values, is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

She is also editor or coeditor of the volumes Beyond Self-Interest, Feminism, Oppositional Consciousness, Deliberative Systems, and Political Negotiation. She was President of the American Political Science Association in 2012-13 and received the Skytte Prize in 2018.

Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, legitimate coercion, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.

*Professor Mansbridge has been a Faculty Associate of the Ethics Center since 1998.*



 

 

 





 

 

- ## Current Role
    
     [Faculty Associate](/current-role/faculty-associates)