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The Political Economy of Transparency: What Makes Disclosure Policies Sustainable?

This paper explores the dynamics of transparency. It asks why some government-created systems of disclosure improve over time while others stagnate or degenerate into costly paperwork exercises.

Three Candidates Need the Hook.

Recipes for Public Spheres: Eight Institutional Design Choices and Their Consequences.

Just a Rescue Fantasy.

What We Owe to the Global Poor: Political Philosophy Meets Development Economics.

John Rawls's "Law of Peoples" has come in for a good deal of critical discussion recently, and most political philosophers seem to find it wanting for one reason or another.

Flipping and <i>Ex Post</i> Aggregation.

The Radical Reader: A Documentary Anthology of the American Radical Tradition

APSA Presidential Address: The Public Role of Political Science.

On the Ethics of Exporting Ethics: The Right to Silence in Japan and the U.S.

At the end of WWII, U.S. occupation forces transformed Japan from an autocratic polity into a constitutional democracy.

Democracy and Social Choice: A Response to Saari.

In my paper "Arrow's Theorem, Indeterminacy, and Multiplicity Reconsidered" (published in "Ethics" in 2001) I argue that, contrary to many skeptics, majoritarian democracy is indeed conceptually coher