Nadia Urbinati is the Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies at Columbia University. Among others she has authored Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University Of Chicago 2006; rep. 2008) and co-edited, with Steven Lukes, Condorcet's Political Writings (Cambridge University 2012); her last Italian book on a democratic critique of the ideology of individualism is under translation by Yale University Press.