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publications

journal articles

journal articles

"What Toleration is Not." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, forthcoming.

"The Blocker Postulates for Measures of Voting Power." Social Choice and Welfare 60.4 (2023): 595–623. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh and Adrian Vetta)

"The Grammar of Social Power: Power-to, Power-with, Power-despite, and Power-over." Political Studies 71.1 (2023): 3-19.

"A Recursive Measure of Voting Power with Partial Decisiveness or Efficacy." The Journal of Politics 84.3 (2022): 1652–66.

"Consequences, Conscience, and Fallibility: Early Modern Roots of Toleration." Critical Review 34.1 (2022): 16-27 .

"The Scope of the All-Subjected Principle: On the Logical Structure of Coercive Laws." Analysis 81.4 (2021): 603-610.

"Representation, Bicameralism, Political Equality, and Sortition: Reconstituting the Second Chamber as a Randomly Selected Assembly." Perspectives on Politics 19.3 (2021): 791-806.

"Counter-Majoritarian Democracy: Persistent Minorities, Federalism, and the Power of Numbers." American Political Science Review 115.3 (2021): 742-756.

"The Power of Numbers: On Agential Power-With-Others Without Power-Over-Others." Philosophy & Public Affairs 49.3 (2021): 290-318.

"Glory and the Evolution of Hobbes’s Disagreement Theory of War: From Elements to Leviathan." History of Political Thought 41.2 (2020): 265-298.

"Subjectivism, Instrumentalism, and Prudentialism about Reasons: On the Normativity of Instrumental Transmission." European Journal of Philosophy 27.2 (2019): 387-402.

"Hobbes’s Conventionalist Theology, the Trinity, and God as an Artificial Person by Fiction." The Historical Journal 60.4 (2017): 915-941.

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“The Rights of Migrants and the Protection of Fundamental Human Interests: On Carens’s The Ethics of Immigration.” Political Theory 43.3 (2015): 380-387.

"A Critique of the "Common Ownership of the Earth" Thesis." Les Ateliers de l'éthique 8.2 (2013): 33-40.

"Démocratie, nation et ethnie : le problème des frontières.” Raison publique (2013).

"Publicity, Privacy, and Religious Toleration in Hobbes's Leviathan." Modern Intellectual History 10.2 (2013): 261-291.

"On the Demos and its Kin: Nationalism, Democracy, and the Boundary Problem." American Political Science Review 106.4 (2012): 867-882.

"Hobbes on the Causes of War: A Disagreement Theory." American Political Science Review 105.2 (2011): 298-315.

"Democratic Legitimacy and State Coercion: A Reply to David Miller." Political Theory 38.1 (2010): 121-130.

"How Baha'i Voters Should Vote." The Journal of Baha'i Studies 18.1-4 (2008): 77-94.

"Is There a Genuine Tension between Cosmopolitan Egalitarianism and Special Responsibilities?" Philosophical Studies 138.3 (2008): 348-365. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh & Pablo Gilabert)

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"Hobbes's Agnostic Theology before Leviathan." Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47.5 (2017): 714-737.

"Hobbes on Mind: Practical Deliberation, Reasoning, and Language." Journal of the History of Philosophy 55.1 (2017): 1-34.

“The Absence of Reference in Hobbes’ Philosophy of Language.” Philosophers' Imprint 15.22 (2015): 1-17.

"Wage Competition and the Special-Obligations Challenge to More Open Borders.” Politics, Philosophy & Economics 14.3 (2015): 255-269. (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh, Manish Pandey, & Sohrab Abizadeh)

"Democratic Theory and Border Coercion: No Right to Unilaterally Control Your Own Borders." Political Theory 36.1 (2008): 37-65.

"Cooperation, Pervasive Impact, and Coercion: On the Scope (not Site) of Distributive Justice." Philosophy & Public Affairs 35.4 (2007): 318-358.

“On the Philosophy/Rhetoric Binaries, or, Is Habermasian Discourse Motivationally Impotent?” Philosophy & Social Criticism 33.4 (2007): 445-472.

"Liberal Egalitarian Arguments for Closed Borders: Some Preliminary Critical Reflections." Ethics & Economics 4.1 (2006).

"Democratic Elections without Campaigns? Normative Foundations of National Baha'i Elections." World Order 37.1 (2005): 7-49.

“Was Fichte an Ethnic Nationalist? On Cultural Nationalism and its Double.” History of Political Thought 26.2 (2005): 334-359.

“In Defence of the Universalization Principle in Discourse Ethics.” The Philosophical Forum 36.2 (2005): 193-211.

“Does Collective Identity Presuppose an Other? On the Alleged Incoherence of Global Solidarity.” American Political Science Review 99.1 (2005): 45-60.

“Historical Truth, National Myths, and Liberal Democracy: On the Coherence of Liberal Nationalism.” The Journal of Political Philosophy 12.3 (2004): 291-313.

“Liberal Nationalist versus Postnational Social Integration: On the Nation's Ethno-Cultural Particularity and Concreteness’.” Nations and Nationalism 10.3 (2004): 231-250.

“Introduction to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.” World Order 34.2 (2002–2003): 19–27.

“The Passions of the Wise: Phronêsis, Rhetoric and Aristotle’s Passionate Practical Deliberation.” The Review of Metaphysics 56.2 (2002): 267-296.

“Does Liberal Democracy Presuppose a Cultural Nation? Four Arguments.” American Political Science Review 96.3 (2002): 495-509.

“Amnesia, Obsession, Cinematic U-Turns: On Mulholland Drive.” Senses of Cinema 19 (2002). (Co-authored: Kirsten Ostherr & Arash Abizadeh.)

“Ethnicity, Race, and a Possible Humanity.” World Order 33.1 (2001): 23-34.

“Banishing the Particular: Rousseau on Rhetoric, Patrie, and the Passions.” Political Theory 29.4 (2001): 556–582.

“Informational Constraint and Focal Point Convergence: Theoretical Implications of Plurality-Rule Elections for the New Institutionalism.” Rationality and Society 13.1 (2001): 99–136.

“‘Because Baha’u’llah Said So’: Dealing With a Non-starter in Moral Reasoning.” Baha’i Studies Review 5.1 (1995): 83–85.

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monographs

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Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.

book chapters

book chapters

"Hobbes's Theory of the Good: Felicity by Anticipatory Pleasure." In A Companion to Hobbes. Ed. Marcus P. Adams. Pp. 109-124. Wiley Blackwell, 2021.

“In Defence of Imperfection: An Election-Sortition Compromise.” In Legislature by Lot. Ed. John Gastil & Erik Olin Wright. Pp. 249-255. London & New York: Verso, 2019.

"Which Procedure for Deciding Election Procedures?" In Should We Change How We Vote?Evaluating Canada's Electoral System. Ed. Andrew Potter, Daniel Weinstock, & Peter Loewen. Pp. 188-196. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017.

“Les signes religieux, la laïcité et la mentalité médiévale : du débat public sur la Charte des valeurs.” In Les Conditions du dialogue au Québec : Laïcité, réciprocité, pluralisme. Ed. Alain-G. Gagnon & Jean-Charles St-Louis. Pp. 29-41. Montréal: Québec Amérique, 2016.

“Sovereign Jurisdiction, Territorial Rights, and Membership in Hobbes.” In The Oxford Handbook of Hobbes. Ed. A.P. Martinich and Kinch Hoekstra. Pp. 397-431. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“The Special-Obligations Challenge to More Open Borders.” In Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership. Ed. Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi. Pp. 105-124. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.

“The Representation of Hobbesian Sovereignty: Leviathan as Mythology.” In Hobbes Today: Insights for the 21st Century. Ed. S. A. Lloyd. Pp. 113-152. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.

“Closed Borders, Human Rights, and Democratic Legitimation.” In Driven From Home: Human Rights and the New Realities of Forced Migration. Ed. David Hollenbach. Pp. 147-66. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2010.

“Citizenship, Immigration, and Boundaries.” In Ethics and World Politics. Ed. D. S. A. Bell. Pp. 358-76. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.

“Thomas Hobbes et le droit naturel.” In Droit naturel, relancer l’histoire? Ed. Xavier Dijon. Pp. 331-78. Brussels: Bruylant, 2008.

reviews & other articles

reviews & other articles

Review of Matthew Longo, The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). In Perspectives on Politics 17.1 (2019): 233–235.

“Reply to Critics of Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics.” Online Colloquium of the European Hobbes Society (Jan. 11, 2019).

“Introduction to Hobbes and the Two Faces of Ethics.” Online Colloquium of the European Hobbes Society (Dec. 14, 2018).

"Do Prosperous Democracies Have a Right to Keep out Desperate Foreigners?" The Critique (2016/01/06).

Review of Joseph H. Carens, The Ethics of Immigration (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In Notre Dame Philosophical Review (2014).

"The Radical Hobbes." Review essay of Jeffrey R. Collins, The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) and James Martel, Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007). In Political Theory 37.5 (2009): 706-712.

Response to Joseph Carens’s “In Defense of Amnesty for Irregular Migrants.” Boston Review 34.3 (2009).

Review of David D. Laitin, Nations, States, and Violence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007). In Nations and Nationalism 14.3 (2008): 616-617.

“Politics beyond War: Ulrich Gollmer’s Contribution to Baha’i Political Thought.” World Order 35.3 (2004): 19-23.

Review of Keven Brown and Eberhard von Kitzing, Evolution and Baha’i Belief: Abdu’l-Baha’s Response to Nineteenth-Century Darwinism (Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 2001). In International Journal of Middle East Studies 36.1 (2004): 148-149.

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works in progress

works in progress

"A Recursive Measure of Voting Power that Satisfies Reasonable Postulates." Preprint: arXiv:2105.03006 (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh and Adrian Vetta)

"A General Framework for a Class of Quarrels: The Quarrelling Paradox Revisited." Preprint: arXiv:2205.08353 (Co-authored: Arash Abizadeh and Adrian Vetta)

print/audio/visual

print/audio/visual

Video: Agential and Structural Power

Jun 14, 2023

Video: Agential and Structural Power

Video of lecture delivered at the Center for Global Ethics and Politics of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at The...

Blogpost: How Much Power Does a Voter Have?

May 2, 2022

Blogpost: How Much Power Does a Voter Have?

Arash Abizadeh. 2022. "How Much Power Does a Voter Have?" JOP Blogpost. Image: Suffragettes parading, April 15, 1917. George Grantham...

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