Mary (Molly) Scudder

Research(* indicates open or free access)

Books

• Scudder, Mary F. and Stephen K. White. 2023. The Two Faces of Democracy: Between Agonism and Deliberation. Oxford University Press. 

Reviewed by: Simone Chambers, Perspectives on Politics, doi:10.1017/S1537592725102697

Connor Moran, Theory and Event, doi:10.1353/tae.2025.a947379

Nicholas Tampio, American Political Thought, https://doi.org/10.1086/729173

Max P. Rozenburg, Contemporary Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-024-00728-7 

• Scudder, Mary F. 2020. Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation. Oxford University Press. 

Critical Dialogue in Perspectives on Politics with Ana Tanasoca, doi:10.1017/S1537592721001821

​Articles & Chapters

• Scudder, Mary F. "Working on Our Civic Selves Together" Critical Review (forthcoming).

• Scudder, Mary F. "Agonistic Democracy," in Cristina Lafont, Nadia Urbinati, David Ragazzoni (Eds). De Gruyter Handbook of Democratic Theory (forthcoming).

• * Scudder, Mary F. and Michael A. Neblo. 2025. "Listening as Power in Political Communication," Political Communication, 42 (4). https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2498524

• Scudder, Mary.  2024. "The Art of Listening in the Age of AI," Journal of International Political Theory, 20 (3), 272-282 . https://doi.org/10.1177/17550882241283580

• Scudder Mary F., Selen Ercan, and Kerry McCallum. 2023. “Institutional Listening in Deliberative Democracy: Towards a Deliberative Logic of Transmission,” Politics Vol. 43 (1): 38-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211060691

• * Scudder, Mary F. 2023. “Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation,” Political Studies, Vol. 71 (1): 238-255. https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211032624

• Scudder, Mary F. 2022. “Measuring Democratic Listening: A Listening Quality Index,” Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 75, Issue 1: 175-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/1065912921989449

• *Scudder, Mary F. 2022. “Listening Quality Index” in Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy, edited by Selen Ercan, Hans Asenbaum, Nicole Curato, and Ricardo F. Mendonça. (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
  
  

• *Scudder, Mary F. 2020. "The Ideal of Uptake in Democratic Deliberation, Political Studies, ​Vol. 68, Issue 2: 504-522. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719858270

  • LSE US Centre Blog Post: Why it’s bad for democracy when we ignore the voices we would rather not hear ​

• Scudder, Mary F. 2016. “Beyond Empathy: Strategies and Ideals of Deliberative Democracy," Polity, Vol. 48, Issue 4: 524-550. (https://doi.org/10.1057/s41279-016-0001-9)

• Lukes, Timothy J. and Mary F. Scudder. “Teaching Wisdom to Interest: Book Five of Plato’s Republic,” PS: Political Science and Politics, January 2009.

Book Reviews

• Deliberation Naturalized: Deliberation Naturalized: Improving Real Existing Deliberative Democracy by Ana Tanasoca. Oxford University Press, 2020. Perspectives on Politics. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592721002127

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• American Dionysia: Violence, Tragedy, and Democratic Politics by Steven Johnston. Cambridge University Press, 2015. Journal of Politics (October 2016). https://doi.org/10.1086/688229