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21 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
  The agenda-setting force of petitioning would not have been possible without the “complaint and response” norm that has been witnessed in so many human societies but which attached itself to Carolingian office in medieval Europe (Bisson 2012) and that dominated assembly politics in the English civil war and British North American assemblies (Zaret 2000; Greene 2014). [read post]
15 Aug 2019, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
I use the Bisson to talk about contingency and about the significance of the raid on Harpers Ferry. [read post]
20 Apr 2022, 7:30 am by Guest Blogger
For the Balkinization symposium on Daniel Carpenter, Democracy by Petition: Popular Politics in Transformation, 1790–1870 (Harvard University Press, 2021). [read post]