Nadia Urbinati is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory at Columbia University. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization and the Feltrinelli Foundation. She is the author of Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government , Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy, The Tyranny of the Moderns, Democracy Disfigured: Opinion, Truth and the People, and Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy . She has coedited numerous volumes, including The Constructivist Turn in Political Representation, On the Worth and Values of Democracy , and Condorcet's Political Writing .