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On the justification of democratic decision-making:
- See also: “The New Libertarian Elitists,” Democracy (spring 2023)
“Institutional Bargaining for Democratic Theorists (or How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Haggling).” With Jack Knight. Annual Review of Political Science 23:259-276 (2020).
“Intuitions about the epistemic virtues of majority voting.” With Hugo Mercier, Martin Dockendorff, Yoshimasa Majima, and Anne-Sophie Hacquin. Thinking and Reasoning (2020).
“Justifying the Jury: Reconciling Justice, Equality, and Democracy.” American Political Science Review. August 2018, 112:3, 446-485.
“Uncompromising Democracy.” NOMOS LV: Compromise. Ed. Jack Knight. New York: New York University Press, 2018.
“Epistemic Democracy and Its Challenges.” Annual Review of Political Science 18: 187-203. (2015).
“Should Progressive Constitutionalism Embrace Popular Constitutionalism?” 72 Ohio State L.J. 1295 (2011).
“The Arbitrariness of Supermajority Rules” Social Science Information. March 2010, 49:1, 61-82.
On Athens and ancient political thought:
“Aristotle and the Judgment of the Many: Equality, Not Collective Quality.” Journal of Politics. July 2016, 78:3, 733-745.
“Was the graphe paranomon a form of judicial review?” 34 Cardozo L.R. 1049 (2013).
“Shouts, Murmurs and Votes: Acclamation and Aggregation in Ancient Greece.” Journal of Political Philosophy. December 2010, 18:4, 448-468.
“Athenian Democracy and Legal Change.” American Political Science Review. May 2004, 98:2, 311-325.
On modern political thought:
“Passive-Aggressive Citizenship.” In Richard Tuck, Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Government (Stephen Macedo, ed.), Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024.
“Political Equality Among Unequals.” In Matthew Maguire and David Williams, ed., Cambridge Companion to Rousseau’s Social Contract. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
“Democracy and Knowledge from Condorcet to the Present.” In Christopher Meckstroth and Samuel Moyn, eds. Cambridge History of Democracy, volume 3: From the Nineteenth Century to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.
“Insomnia and Other Constitutional Pathologies” (Review of The Sleeping Sovereign, by Richard Tuck). With Jeffrey Lenowitz. Modern Intellectual History 16:1, 295-308 (April 2019)
“Voting the General Will: Rousseau on Decision Rules.” Political Theory. June 2008, 36:3, 403-423.
“Jeremy Bentham on Fallibility and Infallibility.” Journal of the History of Ideas. October 2007, 68:4, 563-585.
“Rousseau on Fundamental Law.” Political Studies. June 2003, vol. 51, 387-403.
On the implications of digital technology for democracy:
“The Democratic Consequences of the New Public Sphere.” With Henry Farrell. In Digital Technology and Democratic Theory, eds. Hélène Landemore, Rob Reich, and Lucy Bernholz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
“Norms, Minorities, and Collective Choice Online.” With Henry Farrell. Ethics and International Affairs. Winter 2009, 22:4, 357-368.
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