Research

Books:

Representative Democracy: a Justification with Dimitri Landa, Oxford University Press, 2025.

Immigration and the Constraints of Justice Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Articles:

‘Survey Article: Unfounded Pessimism about Electoral Accountability’ with Sean Ingham and Dimitri Landa. Political Philosophy 2(2), 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/pp.23037

‘Should We Be Lottocrats?’ with Dimitri Landa. Free & Equal 1(2), 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/fe.23191

‘The Representation-Enabling Approach to Campaign Finance Reform’ Free & Equal 1(1), 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/fe.18650

‘Political Meritocracy and Democracy.’ with Dimitri Landa. Annual Review of Political Science. Forthcoming, 2025. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050123-113309

‘Democratic Stability and Backsliding.’ Political Philosophy, 1(2): 514-544, 2024. DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/pp.17029

‘Immigration, Backlash, and Democracy.’ American Political Science Review, 118/1, February 2024, 332-344. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S000305542300028X

‘Is Random Selection a Cure for the Ills of Electoral Representation?’ with Dimitri Landa. The Journal of Political Philosophy 29/1, 2021 (Ungated).

‘The Failure of Instrumental Arguments for a Human Right to Democracy.’ The Journal of Political Philosophy 28/1, 2020.

‘Representative Democracy as Defensible Epistocracy.’ with Dimitri Landa. American Political Science Review 114/1, 2020 (Ungated).

‘Should Campaign Finance Reform Aim to Level the Playing Field?’ Politics, Philosophy & Economics 18/4, 2019 (Ungated).

‘The Anatomy of Debate about Campaign Finance.’ The Journal of Politics 78/4, 2016.

‘Does the Egalitarian Rationale for Campaign Finance Reform Succeed?’ Philosophy & Public Affairs 44/1, 2016.

‘Should Civil Liberties have Strict Priority?’ Law & Philosophy 34/5, 2015.

‘Immigration, Jurisdiction, & History.’ with Michael Kates. Philosophy & Public Affairs 42/2, 2014.

‘Are There Good Procedural Objections to Judicial Review?’ with Kathleen Doherty. The Journal of Politics 76/1, 2014.

‘Democratizing the Nonprofit Sector.’ The Journal of Political Philosophy 21/3, 2013.

‘The Lockean Case for Religious Tolerance: The Social Contract and the Irrationality of Persecution’ Political Studies 57/4, 2009.

‘Social Trust & the Ethics of Immigration Policy.’ The Journal of Political Philosophy 17/2, 2009.

‘Collective Ownership and the Morality of Immigration Restrictions.’ Ethics & International Affairs 22/3, 2008.

‘Political Coercion & the Scope of Distributive Justice.’ Political Studies 56/2, 2008.

‘Obligations of Fair Play & Foreigners.’ The Journal of Political Philosophy 14/2, 2006.

Book Chapter:

‘Philanthropy & the Democratic Ideal’ in Philanthropy in Democratic Societies eds. L. Bernholz, C. Cordelli, and R. Reich (University of Chicago Press, 2016), pp. 226-243.