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    Richard Battistoni

  2. California State University, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA

    Mark B. Brown

  3. The Kettering Foundation, Dayton, OH, 45459, USA

    John Dedrick

  4. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Lisa Disch

  5. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 85287, USA

    Jennet Kirkpatrick

  6. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA

    Jane Mansbridge

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Battistoni, R., Brown, M.B., Dedrick, J. et al. Benjamin Barber and the Practice of Political Theory. Contemp Polit Theory 17, 478–510 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-018-0226-3

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