Jane Mansbridge is Charles F. Adams Professor of Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University. She is the author of Beyond Adversary Democracy, an empirical and normative study of face-to-face democracy, and the award-winning Why We Lost the ERA, a study of anti-deliberative dynamics in social movements based on organizing for an Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Her current work includes studies of representation, democratic deliberation, everyday activism, and the public understanding of free-rider problems.