Democracy's Second Act
Why Politics Needs the Public
$84.46
- Hardcover
312 pages
- Release Date
10 February 2026
Summary
Democracy isn’t broken, it’s stuck. Around the world, people are growing angry and polarised not because they’ve stopped caring, but because democracy has stopped evolving. The result isn’t apathy, it is a rising sense of political futility.
In Democracy’s Second Act, Peter MacLeod and Richard Johnson argue that the First Act of democracy—anchored in voting rights and representative government—achieved extraordinary gains. Free elections, near-universal suffrage, and the peac…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781487517137 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1487517130 |
| Author: | Peter MacLeod, Richard Johnson |
| Publisher: | University of Toronto Press |
| Imprint: | Aevo UTP |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 10 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 490g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 159mm x 235mm |
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Peter MacLeod
Peter MacLeod is the founder and principal of MASS LBP, where for nearly two decades he has been at the forefront of democratic innovation championing a new style of politics rooted in deliberation and shared power. A trusted advisor to governments at all levels, he is one of Canada’s leading voices on democracy, civic trust, and active citizenship.
Richard Johnson is a former journalist and current policy director at MASS LBP. His writing has appeared in The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, The Walrus, Reader’s Digest, This Magazine, The New Quarterly, and many others. A former Fellow in Literary Journalism at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, he was also a longtime writer for the award-winning podcast Trailblazers, with Walter Isaacson.
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