Research

BOOK PROJECTS 

In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy, Princeton University Press, 352 pp. Author Meets Critics panel at APSA Annual Meeting, Reviews in Perspectives in Politics, Political Studies, Political Theory, Ethical Perspectives, Parliaments, Estates and Representation, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

If Elected: The Ethics of Lawmaking and Campaigning. Ten chapter working manuscript.

Gaslighting Citizens, with Ryan Davis.

PAPERS 

"How Gaslighting Exploits Citizenship," with Ryan Davis, in Character and the Professions, edited by Michael Lamb and Kenneth Townsend (forthcoming)

"Gaslighting Citizens," with Ryan Davis, American Journal of Political Science (2023)

"Leadership and Representation: A Compatibility Test," Political Ethics: A Handbook, edited by Andrew Sabl and Edward Hall (Princeton University Press, 2022).

“Mansbridge’s Rules of Order,” Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, ed. by Jacob Levy, Oxford University Press, 2022. 

"The Democratic Limits of Political Experiments," with Ryan Davis and Adam Kern, Philosophy, Politics and Economics

“The Problem of Clean Hands: Negotiated Compromise in Lawmaking,” NOMOS: Compromise, edited by J. Knight, New York University Press (with replies by D. Dyzenhaus and A. Ford).

“The Common Good: A Buckpassing Account,” with Ryan Davis, Journal of Political Philosophy Volume 25, Number 4, 2017, pp. e60–e79.

"Must Rawlsians be Hamiltonians? Small Government and Political Illiberalism," American Journal of Jurisprudence," 2017, 62:1

“The Free Provider Problem: Distributive Justice as a Public Responsibility,” in Democracy and Philanthropy, eds. R. Reich, L. Bernholz, C. Cordelli, University of Chicago Press, 2016

“Is Democratic Leadership Possible?” American Political Science Review, Vol. 109, No. 4 November 2015 

“The Ethics of Electioneering,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 24 (2) (2015)

“The Conceptual Priority of Injustice,” Jurisprudence, Volume 5, Issue 2 (2014), reply by Amartya Sen

“Perpetual Giving Machines,” Boston Review, Fall 2013

“Democracy as an Inflationary Concept,” Representation, 10:1 (2011) 


WORKING PAPERS 

"Protest Voting"
"Democracy as Co-Agency: Elements of a Theory"