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We are delighted to announce that all articles accepted for publication from Volume 13 (2026) onwards in Democratic Theory will be ‘open access’; published with a Creative Commons licence and freely available to read online (see the journal’s Open Access Options page for available licence options). 

We have an OA option for every author: The costs of open access publication will be covered through agreements between the publisher and the author’s institution, payment of APCs for those with third-party funding, or else waived entirely, ensuring every author can publish and enjoy the benefits of OA.

See this FAQ for more information.

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Democratic Theory
  • Forthcoming
  • ISSN: 2332-8894 (Print), 2332-8908 (Online)
  • Editors: Ali Aslam Mount Holyoke College, USA, Emily Beausoleil Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, Jean-Paul Gagnon University of Canberra, Australia, and Deva Woodly Brown University, USA
  • Editorial board
Democratic Theory is a peer-reviewed open access journal that encourages philosophical and interdisciplinary contributions that critically explore democratic theory—in all its forms. Spanning a range of views, the journal offers a cross-disciplinary forum for diverse theoretical questions to be put forward and systematically examined. It advances non-Western as well as Western ideas and is actively based on the premise that there are many forms of democracies and many types of democrats.
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