Jeffrey Edward Green is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of scholarly essays on various topics including political apathy, disenchantment, and ignorance, Green has taught previously at Harvard and at Gothenburg University in Sweden.
For centuries it has been assumed that democracy must refer to the empowerment of the people's voice. In this book, Green argues that it is both possible and desirable to understand democracy in terms of what the people gets to see instead of the traditional focus on what it gets to say.