Political Theory

Freeman

Main areas of study are contemporary thought, feminist theory, democratic theory, continental philosophy, notions of self, political agency, deliberation, and identity. I am interested in exploring how we theorize democratic processes and institutions that are meaningfully inclusive and to critically examine how (and how much) the framework of deliberation ought to be responsive to difference. As a former Canadian Member of Parliament, I am interested in finding applications to policy formation and gaining insight from observing and studying the political process.

Flagstad

Elszasz

Hayley is a PhD candidate writing her dissertation about city-level climate policy in the Bay Area of California. Her research explores how community groups, activists, and city governments contribute to passing and implementing policies related to electrification and gas bans. Hayley's primary academic interests include environmental politics, social movement organizing, and fieldwork ethics.

Bleiberg

My research focuses on disingenuous claim-making in contemporary politics. I’m interested in examining the function this type of claim-making serves for both speaker and audience

Bibeau-Gagnon

Research interests: Nonideal and realist political theory. Critical theory. Public opinion.

I am mainly interested in political theory and the way in which it is related to the practice of politics. More precisely, I pursue research about how public opinion, democratic decision-making, and deliberation inform normative thinking about salient political issues. In parallel, I am also working on quantitative public opinion projects about religiosity, racism, and the legalization of marijuana in Canada.

Cope

Kevin Cope is an associate professor of law at the Law School and faculty affiliate at the Department of Politics.

Cope’s research focuses on the measurement of legal and political phenomena. Substantively, he is most interested in the law and politics of international institutions, migration, and relationships between domestic institutional structure and international behavior.

Cash

Jordan Cash is the 2018-2019 Pre-Doctoral Research Specialist in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. His research focuses on American politics, constitutional law, American political thought, and early modern political theory. His doctoral research examines how presidents who were isolated from other institutions used their constitutional authority to achieve their policy goals, providing a clearer view of the institutional logic of the constitutional presidency.

Savage

James D.

Rubenstein

Jennifer Rubenstein is an associate professor of politics at the University of Virginia specializing in political theory. Her interests include the political role and ethical responsibilities of non-governmental organizations; global justice; non-ideal theory; democratic theory (especially theories of non-electoral representation and advocacy that attend to global inequalities); theories of office, and the role of imagination and experience in politics.

Klosko

George Klosko’s research interests include contemporary political theory, especially issues in analytical and normative theory, and the history of political thought. He teaches courses in both areas: in the history of political thought, focusing on the liberal tradition and Greek political theory, especially Plato; in contemporary, in specific aspects of liberal theory, including problems of political obligation and the theory of John Rawls and Rawls’s critics.

Department of Politics