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The Journal of Politics, April 2020, pp. 448-459 This article challenges a common understanding of the role that political disruption plays in promoting large-scale change. It argues that the most basic political work disruption performs is not to win public sympathy but instead to interrupt privileged people’s motivated ignorance. Drawing on examples from the Civil […]

Journal of Political Power. February 2018, pp. 1-12. This article engages Rainer Forst’s account of structural power, as elaborated in Normativity and Power: Analyzing Social Orders of Justification. Its central claim is that structural power works, not only through what Forst calls ‘justificatory narratives: but also through institutionalized and objectified social norms. When norms are

Contemporary Political Theory 16,2 (May, 2017), pp. 185-206. Request an electronic copy.

The Journal of Politics, University of Chicago Press, January, 2017.

Political Theory 39:4 (August 2011), 468-97. This essay takes as its starting point an apparent tension between theories of democratic deliberation and democratic theories of multicultural accom- modation and makes the case that many multiculturalists and deliberative democrats converge on an ideal of political freedom, understood as non- domination. It argues for distinguishing two dimensions of

Journal of Power 1:1 (April 2008), 5-20. This article challenges a common understanding of the role that political disruption plays in promoting large-scale change. It argues that the most basic political work disruption performs is not to win public sympathy but instead to interrupt privileged people’s motivated ignorance. Drawing on examples from the Civil Rights

Constellations, vol. 14, no. 2 (June 2007), pp. 182-96. At the slart of the twenty-first century, one hardly needs 10 be a political scientist to recognize that democratic institutions alone do not generate democracy. When political actors introduce 10 societies that have been governed non-democratically liberal democratic constitutions – even when these constitutions define broad

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2004), pp 1-24.

Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2004), pp 1-24. Recent democratic theorists have drawn on the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu to make the case that patterned inequalities in the social capacity to engage in deliberation can undermine deliberative theory’s democratic promise.

American Political Science Review, vol. 97, no. 4 (November 2003), pp. 501-14. This article challenges a common understanding of the role that political disruption plays in promoting large-scale change. It argues that the most basic political work disruption performs is not to win public sympathy but instead to interrupt privileged people’s motivated ignorance. Drawing on