Publications

In Press
Thompson, Dennis F. In Press. “Political Liberalism Reconsidered.” Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, edited by Jacob T Levy. London and New York: Oxford University Press.
Forthcoming
Thompson, Dennis F. Forthcoming. “Why Representative Democracy Requires Referendums.” Comparative Election Law, edited by James Gardner. Cheltenham UK: Elgar.
Thompson, Dennis F. Forthcoming. “The Professional Ethics of Witnessing Professionals.” Daedalus: The Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
2019
Thompson, Dennis F. 2019. “The Political Ethics of Political Campaigns .” Routledge Handbook on Ethics and Public Policy, edited by Annabelle Lever and Andrei Poama, 229-41. London: Routledge.
2018
Thompson, Dennis F., and Amy Gutmann. 2018. “Reflections on Deliberative Democracy: When Theory Meets Practice.” Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy, edited by Andre Bachtiger, John Dryzek, and Jane Mansbridge, 900-912. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press.
2017
Thompson, Dennis F. 2017. “Theories of Institutional Corruption.” Annual Review of Political Science 21: 495-513.
Thompson, Dennis F. 2017. “Designing Responsibility: The Problem of Many Hands in Complex Organizations.” Designing Ethics, edited by Jeroen van den Hoven, Seumas Miller, and Thomas Pogge, 32-56. New York and Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press.
2016
Thompson, Dennis F. 2016. “Democratic Trusteeship.” Institutions for Future Generations, edited by Axel Gosseries and Iñigo González, 184-96. London and New York: Cambridge University Press.
2014
Thompson, Dennis. 2014. “Responsibility for Failures of Government: The Problem of Many Hands.” American Journal of Public Administration 44 (3): 259-73.
2013
Thompson, Dennis. 2013. “Professional Disequilibrium: Conflict of Interest in Economics.” Oxford Handbook on Professional Economics Ethics, edited by George DeMartino and Deirdre McCloskey. New York, London: Oxford University Press.
Thompson, Dennis. 2013. “Are American Elections Sufficiently Democratic?” Civic Representation, Elections, and Public Opinion, edited by Jack Nagel and Rogers Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Thompson, Dennis. 2013. “Political Ethics.” International Encyclopedia of Ethics, edited by Hugh LaFollette. Oxford UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
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2012
The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It
Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 2012. The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 279.
Mansbridge, Jane, Dennis F Thompson, and others. 2012. “A Systemic Approach to Deliberative Democracy.” Deliberative Systems, edited by John Parkinson. Cambridge UK and New York: Cambridge University Press.
2010
Gutmann, Amy, and Dennis Thompson. 2010. “The Mindsets of Political Compromise.” Perspectives on Politics 8 (December): 1125-43.
Gutmann, Amy, Dennis Thompson, and Richard A Couto. 2010. “Deliberative Democracy.” Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook,, 325-32. Sage.
Thompson, Dennis F. 2010. “The Primary Purpose of Presidential Primaries.” Political Science Quarterly 125: 205-32.
Thompson, Dennis F. 2010. “Constitutional Character: Virtues and Vices in Presidential Leadership.” Presidential Studies Quarterly 40: 23-37.
Thompson, Dennis F. 2010. “Representing Future Generations: Political Presentism and Democratic Trusteeship.” Democracy, Equality, and Justice, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 13 (1): 17-37.

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