CURRICULUM VITAE
Mark E. Warren
Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy
Department of Political Science
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C. V6T 1Z1
604-822-4355
warren@politics.ubc.ca
EDUCATION:
1982-84:
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Rice University.
1976-82:
Ph.D., Political Science, University of Toronto.
Major area of specialization: Political Theory/Philosophy.
Minor areas of specialization: Comparative government, developing countries;
Political sociology and culture.
Dissertation title: “Nietzsche on Nihilism and Power.”
1975-76:
M.A., Political Science, University of Toronto.
1975-75:
Post Baccalaureate, University of Oregon, in philosophy of social science and
statistics.
1970-74:
B.A., Political Science, cum laude, Lewis and Clark College; subfields in
mathematics and philosophy.
UNIVERSITY POSITIONS:
2004- :
Professor, Harold and Dorie Merilees Professor for the Study of Democracy,
Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia.
2004-07:
Director, Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, University of British
Columbia.
2001-04:
Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
1991-2001:
Associate Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University.
(1991-1994; 1996-7: Director of Graduate Studies; 1995-6 Coordinator, Political
Theory Field; 1997: Chair, Graduate Admissions and Fellowships, 199798, 2000-01).
1988-91:
Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University.
1985-88:
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.
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1984-85:
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at San
Antonio.
1982-84:
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Philosophy, Rice University.
Undergraduate courses: Philosophy and Culture (Contemporary German
Political Thought), Problems of Marxism, Philosophy of Social Science.
Fall, 1981:
Instructor, Humber College.
1976-82:
Teaching Assistant, University of Toronto.
EDITORIAL SERVICE:
Editorial Board, Journal of Politics (1995-97, 2008-), American Journal of Political Science
(1995-1998), Political Research Quarterly.
Partial list of manuscript review service: Political Theory, Political Studies, Philosophy of the
Social Sciences, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political
Science, Review of Politics, Journal of Politics, Canadian Journal of Social and Political
Theory, Western Political Quarterly, History of the Human Sciences, The Social Science
Journal, The Southeastern Political Review, Governance, Biology and Philosophy,
Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Journal of Theoretical Politics, Social Theory
and Practice, Polity, Policy Studies Journal, Comparative Political Studies, Theory and
Society, Journal of Political Philosophy, American Sociological Review, Latin American
Political Studies, Comparative Political Studies, Election Law Journal, British Journal
of Political Science Cornell University Press, University of Illinois Press, Temple
University Press, Sage Publications, Northwestern University Press, Princeton University
Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Michigan Press, SUNY Press,
University of Missouri Press, Basil Blackwell, Georgetown University Press.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1974-75: Researcher with the Bureau of Government Research and Services, University of
Oregon. Research results appeared in two Bureau publications:
“Compensatory Land Use Regulations: Proposals, Issues, and Questions
(1975), and
“State and Local Government Finance in Oregon: Alternatives for the
1977-79 Biennium.”
ACADEMIC HONORS AND RESEARCH SUPPORT:
2010-11 Peter Wall Institute Distinguished Scholar in Residence.
2008-2011, SSHRC Standard Research Grant,“Designing Democratic Institutions for Integrity
and Legitimacy.” $80,000.
2005-2008, SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Rethinking Representation.” $88,187.
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2004, SSRHC Workshop Grant, “Theorizing Democratic Renewal: The BC Citizens’ Assembly
and Beyond” $14,000.
Center for Democracy and the Third Sector Faculty Fellowship, Georgetown University, Spring
2004.
2003 winner of the Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize for Democracy and Association, awarded
by the Conference for the Study of Political Thought “in recognition of the author’s
contribution to the ideals of inquire and scholarship promoted by the Conference.”
2003 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and
Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) for Democracy and Association.
Georgetown University Senior Faculty Fellowship, Spring, 2003.
Georgetown University Senior Faculty Fellowship, Fall, 1998.
Mellon Summer Fellow, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997 Georgetown University.
Georgetown University Summer Research Fellowship, 1993, 2001.
Donovan Award for the Best Faculty Paper, New England Political Science Association Annual
Meetings, 1991.
Mellon Summer Fellow, 1991, Georgetown University.
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Rice University, 1982-84.
Canada Research Fellowship, awarded for 1988-1991 at York University (declined).
Nomination by the Department of Political Economy, University of Toronto, for the APSA’s Leo
Strauss Award for the best dissertation in Political Philosophy, 1981-82.
University of Toronto Doctoral Fellowship, 1976-80.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND OFFICES:
American Political Science Association; 2007 Program Committee (Section Chair, Normative
Political Theory)
American Political Science Association; 2002 Program Committee (Section Chair, Normative
Political Theory)
Foundations of Political Theory Group (APSA Organized Section), Executive Committee, 198890; Program Chair, 1991; Coordinator, 1992-96.
Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Regional Chair, 1985-88.
Midwest Political Science Association (Political Theory Section Chair, 2000)
Southern Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society.
NSF review committees
PUBLICATIONS:
Books:
Designing Deliberative Democracy: The BC Citizens’ Assembly. Edited with Hilary Pearse.
2008. Cambridge University Press.
Democracy and Association. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. 2003 winner of the
Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize, awarded by the Conference for the Study of Political
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Thought. 2003 Outstanding Book Award, Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA).
Democracy and Trust. Edited, with introduction, one chapter, and conclusion. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Nietzsche and Political Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988. Paperback edition, 1991;
second printing, 1991. Portions reprinted in Political Theory: Classic Writings with
Contemporary Views, edited by Joseph Losco and Leonard Williams. New York: St.
Martins Press, 1991.
Articles and Book Chapters:
“Is Low Trust in Political Institutions a Problem of Corruption?” In Political Corruption in
America. Edited by Michael Genovese. Cambria Press. Forthcoming.
“Democracy.” In The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Thought. Edited by George
Klosko. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Citizen Participation and Democratic Deficits.” In Activating the Citizen. Edited by Joan
DeBardeleben and Jon Pammett. Palgave MacMillan. Forthcoming.
“Governance-Driven Democratization.” Critical Policy Analysis 3:1 (April 2009): 3-13.
“Deliberation under Non-Ideal Conditions: A Response to Lenard and Adler.” Journal of Social
Philosophy 39:4 (November 2008): 656-65.
With Nadia Urbinati. “The Concept of Representation in Contemporary Democratic Theory.”
Annual Review of Political Science 11 (2008): 387-412.
“The Nature and Logic of Bad Social Capital.” In The Oxford Handbook of Social Capital.
Edited by Dario Castiglione and Jan Van Deth. Oxford University Press: 122-49. 2008.
“Introduction: Democratic Renewal and Deliberative Democracy.” With Hilary Pearse. In
Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly. Edited by
Mark Warren and Hilary Pearse. Cambridge University Press, 1-19. 2008.
“Citizen Representatives.” In Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia
Citizens' Assembly. Edited by Mark Warren and Hilary Pearse. Cambridge University
Press, 50-69. 2008.
“Institutionalizing Deliberative Democracy.” In Can the People Govern?Delilberation,
Participation, and Democracy. Edited by Shawn Rosenberg. Hampshire: Palgrave
MacMillan 2007, 272-88.
“Should We Trust Them? In a democracy, it’s more important to believe politicians than to
believe in them.” In Character. May 2007.
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“Corruption as Duplicitous Exclusion.” PS: Political Science and Politics 34:4 (October 2006):
803-007
“What Should and Should Not Be Said: Deliberating Sensitive Issues.” Journal of Social
Philosophy 37:2 (Summer 2006): 165-183.
“Democracy and the State.” In The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Edited by John
Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 382399.
“Democracy and Deceit: Regulating Appearances of Corruption.” American Journal of Political
Science 50:1 (January 2006): 160-174.
“La Democracia Contra la Corrupción.” Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 48:
193 (January-March 2005): 109-139.
“The Transformation of Democratic Representation.” With Dario Castiglione. Democracy and
Society, Fall 2004, pp. 5, 20-22.
“Social Capital and Corruption” Democracy and Society, Spring 2004, pp. 1, 16-18.
“Informal Representation: Who Speaks for Whom?” Democracy and Society, Spring 2004, pp. 8,
15.
“What Kind of Civil Society is Best for Democracy?” Portuguese Journal of Social Science 3:1
(2004): 37-47.
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“What Does Corruption Mean in a Democracy?” American Journal of Political Science, 48:2
(April 2004): 327-342. Reprinted in Public Ethics, edited by Richard Bellamy and
Antonino Palumbo (Ashgate Publishing), forthcoming.
“Trust in Democratic Institutions,” in Trust: Cement of Democracy. Edited by Frank Ankersmit
and Henk te Velde. Leuven: Peeters, 2004, 49-69.
“What is the Role of Nonprofits in a Democracy?” Society 40:4 (May/June 2003), 46-51.
Reprinted with revisions as “What is the Political Role of Nonprofits in a Democracy,”
in In Search of the Nonprofit Sector. Edited by Peter Frumkin and Jonathan Imber. New
Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2004, 37-49.
“What Can Democratic Participation Mean Today?” Political Theory 30 (October 2002): 678702. Reprinted, with revisions, in Representation and Democratic Theory. Edited by
David Laycock. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004, 197-219.
“A Second Transformation of Democracy?” In Democracy Transformed : Expanding Political
Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Edited by Bruce Cain, Russell
Dalton, and Susan Scarrow. Oxford University Press, 2003, 223-249.
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“Deliberative Democracy.” In Democratic Theory Today. Edited by Geoffrey Stokes and April
Carter. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, 173-202.
“Comments on Stephen White’s Sustaining Affirmation: Weak Ontology in Political Theory,”
Theory and Event (June, 2000).
“Democratic Theory and Trust.” In Democracy and Trust. Edited by Mark E. Warren. Cambridge
University Press, 1999, 310-345.
“What is Political?” Journal of Theoretical Politics 11 (April, 1999): 207-231.
“Reply to Ruth Abbey and Fredrick Appel,” Political Theory 27 (February, 1999): 126-130.
“Nietzsche and the Political,” New Nietzsche Studies, 2 (Fall/Winter, 1997): 37-57.
“What Should We Expect From More Democracy? Radically Democratic Responses to Politics,”
Political Theory 24 (May, 1996): 241-70.
“Deliberative Democracy and Authority,” American Political Science Review 90 (March, 1996):
46-60.
“When Does Reason Become Power?: Nietzsche and Weber.” In Max Weber and the Barbarism
of Reason. Edited by Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley. Toronto: University of Toronto
Press, 1995: 68-96.
“The Self in Discursive Democracy.” In The Cambridge Companion to Habermas. Edited by
Stephen K. White. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995: 167-20.
“Nonfoundationalism and Democratic Judgment,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 14
(1994): 151-182.
“Democracy and Difference,” Newsletter of the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good
Society 4 (Summer, 1994): 1, 3-7.
“Can Participatory Democracy Produce Better Selves? Psychological Dimensions of Habermas’s
Discursive Model of Democracy.” Political Psychology 14 (June, 1993): 209-234.
“Response to Robert Bellah,” Political Economy of the Good Society Newsletter 2 (Summer,
1992): 13-14.
“Max Weber’s Nietzschean Conception of Power.” History of the Human Sciences 5 (August,
1992): 19-37; reprinted as Politics and Modernity, edited by Irving Velody and Robin
Williams (London: Sage, 1993).
“Democratic Theory and Self-Transformation.” American Political Science Review 86 (March,
1992): 8-23.
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“Ideology and the Self.” Theory and Society, 19 (October 1990): 599-634.
“Liberal Constitutionalism as Ideology: Marx and Habermas.” Political Theory 17 (November,
1989): 511-534.
“What is Political Theory/Philosophy?” PS 22 (September, 1989): 606-612.
“Marx and Methodological Individualism.” Philosophy of the Social Sciences 18 (December
1988), 447-476; revised and reprinted in Rational Choice Marxism: Assessments, edited
by Terrell Carver and Paul Thomas. London: Macmillan, and University Park, PA:
Pennsylvania University Press, 1995.
“Max Weber’s Liberalism for a Nietzschean World.” American Political Science Review 82
(March 1988): 31-50; reprinted in Max Weber and the Fate of Politics, edited by Peter
Lassman and Irving Velody. Routledge (2005); reprinted in Max Weber, edited by Peter
Lassman. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing (2006).
“The Marx-Darwin Question: Implications for the Critical Aspects of Marx’s Social Theory.”
International Sociology, 2 (September 1987): 251-269.
“Interpreting Nietzsche: A Reply to Alan Woolfolk.” Political Theory 14, (November 1986):
660-666.
“The Politics of Nietzsche’s Philosophy: Nihilism, Culture, and Power.” Political Studies 33
(September 1985): 418-438.
“Nietzsche and Political Philosophy.” Political Theory 13 (May 1985): 183-212. Reprinted in
Critical Assessments: Friedrich Nietzsche. Edited by Daniel Conway. Routledge (1999).
Reprinted in Nietzsche. Edited by Richard White. The International Library of Critical
Essays in the History of Philosophy. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing (2002).
“Nietzsche’s Concept of Ideology.” Theory and Society 13 (July 1984): 541-565. Reprinted in
Friedrich Nietzsche. Edited by Tracy Strong. International Library of Essays in the
History of Social and Political Thought. Hampshire: Ashgate Publishing (2009).
“Nietzsche I pojam ideologije.” Theoria 27 (January-June 1984): 143-156. Translated into
Croatian by Bogoljub Mazic.
“Comment on Terence Ball, ‘Marx and Darwin: A Reconsideration.’“ Political Theory 9 (May,
1981): 260-263.
Review essays:
“A New Paradigm for Democracy Theory,” a review essay on Democracy Across Borders: From
Demos to Demoi, by James Bohman. Ethics & Global Politics. Forthcoming.
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“Radical Democracy and Radical Institutions,” a review essay on Radical Democracy by C.
Douglas Lummis. The Good Society 8 (Winter, 1998): 45-48.
“Political Readings of Nietzsche,” a review essay on An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political
Thinker by Keith Ansell-Pearson, Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist, by Peter
Berkowitz, and Nietzsche’s Genealogies by Randall Havas. Political Theory 26 February
1998): 90-111.
Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty. History of the Human Sciences 3
(February, 1990): 118-22.
Nietzsche’s Teaching by Laurence Lampert. Political Theory 16 (August 1988) 506-510.
“The Use and Abuse of Nietzsche.” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 4 (Winter
1980): 147-67.
“Cheap Thrills in the Late Seventies.” Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory 1
(Spring-Summer 1977): 120-34. (review essay on recent trends in popular psychology).
Book Reviews:
The Concept of Constituency: Political Legitimacy, Democratic Representation, and Institutional
Design by Andrew Rehfeld. Ethics (forthcoming).
Syndromes of Corruption: Wealth, Power, and Democracy by Michael Johnston. Political
Studies (forthcoming). Booknote.
Politics and Vision: Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought, Expanded Edition,
by Sheldon S. Wolin, Political Theory (October 2006).
Inclusion and Democracy by Iris Marion Young, Ethics (April 2002).
Free Public Reason: Making it Up As We Go by Fred D’Agostino. American Political Science
Review 91 (September 1997): 718-719.
Politics, Theory, and Contemporary Culture edited by Mark Poster, and Postmodern
Contentions: Epochs, Politics, Space edited by John Paul Jones III, Wolfgang Natter,
and Theodore R. Schatzki. American Political Science Review 88 (September, 1994).
The Self in Social Theory by C. Fred Alford. American Political Science Review 87 (March,
1993): 195-96.
Tragedy and Denial: The Politics of Difference in Western Political Thought. By Michael Brint.
Ethics 103 (April, 1993): 613.
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The Idea of Political Theory: Reflections on the Self in Political Time and Place. By Tracy B.
Strong. American Political Science Review 86 (June, 1992): 517-18.
The Politics of Being: The Political Thought of Martin Heidegger by Richard Wolin. Journal of
Politics 53 (May, 1992).
Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement. By
John Seery. Ethics 102 (January, 1992): 425.
The Good Society. By Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler,
and Steven M. Tipton. Political Economy of the Good Society Newsletter 2 (Winter,
1992): 20-21.
Nietzsche and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism by Bruce Detwiler. Journal of Politics 53
(August, 1991): 903-7.
Marxism and Social Democracy: The Revisionist Debate 1896-1898 edited by H. Tudor and J.
M. Tudor, and Marx: A Radical Critique by Alan Carter, American Political Science
Review 83 (September 1989): 1007-8.
On Diplomacy by James Der Derian. Journal of Politics 51 (February 1989): 208-11.
The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Social Discontent from Rousseau to
Marx and Nietzsche by Bernard Yack. American Political Science Review, 81 (December
1987): 1355-1356.
Marx’s Critique of Politics: 1842-1847 by Gary Teeple. American Political Science Review 80
(March 1986).
After Marx, edited by Terence Ball and James Farr. American Political Science Review 79
(March 1985): 276-277.
CONFERENCE PAPERS:
“Two Trust-Based Uses of Minipublics.” American Political Science Association, Toronto,
September 3-6, 2009.
“Governance-Driven Democratization.” Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April
2-4, 2009.
“Authoritarian Deliberation: The Deliberative Turn in Chinese Political Development.”
American Political Science Association, Boston, August 28-31, 2008.
“Exit-Based Empowerment in Democratic Theory.” Midwest Political Science Association,
Chicago, April 3, 2008.
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“Political Corruption as Duplicitous Exclusion.”Conference on Democracy and Corruption.
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Jun, 2007.
“Controlling Corruption Through Democratic Empowerment: Market-Style Accountability
Reconsidered,” American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, August 30–
September 3, 2006.
“What Should and Should Not Be Said: Deliberating Sensitive Issues.” Canadian Political
Science Association. Toronto, June 1-3, 2006, and the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, August 30–September 3, 2006.
“Political Corruption and Democracy,” Conference on “Research on Corruption and Its Control:
The State of the Art,” Hills Program on Governance, Wharton School, University of
Pennsylvania, March 3-4, 2006.
“Citizen Representatives,” presented at a workshop entitled “Theorizing Democratic Renewal:
The BC Citizens’ Assembly and Beyond,” Vancouver, June 10-11, 2005, the Midwest
Political Science Association, April 20-22, 2006, University of Pennsylvania, December
5, 2008, and at a workshop on “Nonelected Representatives,” Center for Human Values,
Princeton University, December 6-7, 2008.
“Rethinking Representation: Seven Theoretical Issues,” Midwest Political Science Association
Annual Conference, Chicago, April 6-10, 2005.
“Democracy Against Corruption,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 15-18,
2004; Conference on the Quality of Government, Quality of Government Institute,
University of Göteborg, November 17-19, 2005.
“Democracy and the State,” Conference on Deliberative Democracy in China, Hangzhou,
November 19, 2004.
“The Democratic Functions of Appearance Standards,” American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, August 28-31, 2003.
“Social Capital and Corruption,” Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago,
April 3-5, 2003.
“Corrupting Democracy,” American Political Science Association, Boston, August 29-September
1, 2002.
“Democracy and Corruption: Premodern, Modern, Postmodern,” American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, August 30-September 2, 2001.
“What Kinds of Trust Do Democratic Institutions Need?” Western Political Science Association,
Las Vegas, March 15-17, 2001.
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“Why Deliberative Democracy?” Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, November
4-6, 1999.
“Civil Society and Good Governance,” Conference on Civil Society and Good Governance in the
U.S., Center for the Study of Voluntary Organizations and Services, Georgetown
University, June 4, 1999.
“Trust,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 15-17, 1999.
“Democracy and Associations,” Critical Theory Roundtable, St. Louis University, September 27,
1997, Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, March 19-21, 1998, and the
American Political Science Association, September 3-6, 1998.
“What is Political?” Western Political Science Association, Tucson, March 13-15, 1997.
“Democracy and Trust,” American Political Science Association, San Francisco, August 28September 1, 1996, and Georgetown University, conference on Democracy and Trust,
November 6-8, 1996.
“Rights and Radical Democracy,” American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 31September 3, 1995.
“What Should We Expect From More Democracy? Radically Democratic Responses to Politics,”
Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Virginia Chapter, University of Virginia,
April 16, 1995.
“Radically Democratic Responses to Political Space,” Western Political Science Association,
Portland, Oregon, March 16-18, 1995.
“Deliberative Democracy and Authority,” American Political Science Association, New York,
September 1-4, 1994.
“Democratic Authority,” Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, November 6-9,
1993.
“New Patterns of Politicization: Implications for Participatory Democratic Theory,” American
Political Science Association, Washington, September 2-5, 1993.
“Languages of the Self and Democratic Theory,” American Political Science Association,
Chicago, September 3-6, 1992.
“Can Participatory Democracy Produce Better Selves? Psychological Dimensions of Habermas’s
Model of Discursive Democracy,” Western Political Science Association, San Francisco,
March, 1992.
“Democracy and Difference,” Southern Political Science Association, Tampa, November, 1991.
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“Max Weber’s Nietzschean Conception of Power,” New England Political Science Association,
Worcester, MA, April, 1991.
“Nonfoundationalism and Democratic Judgment,” American Political Science Association, San
Francisco, September, 1990.
“Analytic Marxism,” American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September, 1990.
“Political Discourse and Autonomy: Habermas,” International Society of Political Psychology,
Washington, July, 1990.
“Democracy and Language,” Northeastern Political Science Association Meetings, Philadephia,
November, 1989.
“Rational Actors, Structure, and Culture,” American Political Science Association Meeting,
Atlanta, September, 1989.
“Democracy and Self-Transformation,” American Political Science Association Meetings,
Atlanta, September, 1989.
“Antifoundationalism, Democracy, and the Self,” Western Political Science Association
Meetings, Salt Lake City, March 30 – April 1, 1989.
“When Does Reason Become Power?: Nietzsche and Weber,” American Political Science
Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., September 1, 1988; and the Southern Political
Science Association Meetings, Atlanta, November 4, 1988.
“Citizenship and Subjectivity: A Critical Approach to Constitutionalism.” American Political
Science Association Meetings, Chicago, September 3-6, 1987.
“Rationality and Ideology.” Foundations of Political Theory Group, American Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago, September 3-6, 1987.
“Critical Approaches to the Concept of Power.” American Political Science Association
Meetings, Washington, D.C., August, 1986.
“Marx’s Methodological Individualism.” Foundations of Political Theory Group, American
Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, D.C., August, 1986.
“Weber’s Two Concepts of Democracy.” Foundations of Political Theory Group, American
Political Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, August, 1985.
“Nietzsche and Political Philosophy,” American Political Science Association Meeting,
Washington, D.C., September 1, 1984.
“Functional Explanation in Marx and Darwin.” Northeastern Political Science Association
Meetings, Philadelphia, November 17, 1983.
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“Nietzsche’s Concept of Ideology.” Second International Conference for the Comparative,
Historical, and Critical Analysis of Bureaucracy,” The New School for Social Research,
September 21, 1983.
“Nietzsche, Nihilism, and Liberal Individualism.” Foundations of Political Theory Group,
American Political Science Association Meeting, New York, September, 1981.
“Nietzsche and the Conditions of Political Equality.” Canadian Political Science Association
Meetings, Halifax, June 8, 1981.
“Remembrance and Forgetting,” (on Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud), American Political Science
Association Meeting, New York, August, 1978.
INVITED PAPERS:
“Exit-Based Empowerment in Democratic Theory.” Political Ethics Working Group. American
Political Science Association, September 3-6, 2009.
“Rethinking Democratic Representation: Eight Theoretical Issues.” Conference entitled
“Comparative Perspectives on Political Representation.” Simon Fraser University, July
9-10, 2009.
“Two Trust-Based Uses of Minipublics.” Conference entitled “The Deliberative Society.”
University of York (UK), June 24-26, 2009.
“Governance-Driven Democratization.” Evans School of Public Affairs, University of
Washington, May 1, 2009.
“Is Low Trust in Democratic Institutions a Problem of Corruption?” Conference on “Political
Corruption in America,” Institute for Leadership Studies, Loyola Marymount University,
Los Angeles, CA, February 23, 2009.
“Rethinking Representation: Theoretical Issues.” Conference on Rethinking Representation,
Rockefeller Conference Center, Bellagio, Italy, October 1-4, 2008.
“Democratic Deficits and Citizen Assemblies.” Conference on Defining, Measuring and Fixing
the Democratic Deficit in Canada and the United Sates. Harvard University, May 8-9,
2008.
“What is the Political Role of Nonprofits in a Democracy?” Inaugural Keynote Address,
Association for Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, Vancouver, June 4, 2008
“Governance-Driven Democratization.” Opening Keynote Address, Conference on Critical
Policy Analysis, University of Essex, June 19, 2008, Center for Network Governance,
Roskilde University, Denmark, June 18, 2008, and the Evans School of Public Affairs,
University of Washington, May 1, 2009.
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“Citizen Representatives: The BC Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform.” University of
Regina, October 12, 2007; University of Pennsylvania, December 4, 2008, and
Conference Beyond Elections: The Democratic Legitimacy of New Forms of
Representation, University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, December 56, 2008.
“The Democratic Functions of Separation of Powers.” Keynote address, Conference on The
Progress of Democracy in Mexico, Universidad Autonoma Nacional de Mexico, Mexico
City, May 5, 2007.
“Democratic Deficits and Citizen Participation.” Citizen Participation in the EU and Canada:
Challenges and Change, May 24-25, 2007, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario.
“Democracy and Corruption.” Symposium on Democracy and Corruption. George Washington
University, Washington, DC, April 20, 2007.
“The Separation of Powers and the Democratic Renewal of Westminster Systems,” with Hilary
Pearse. Workshop on The Separation of Powers, the Macmillan Center, Yale University,
October 7, 2006.
“The BC Citizens University of Toronto, Centre for Ethics, Public Issues Forum: Democratic
Legitimacy in Crisis: Are Citizens’ Assemblies the Answer? September 25, 2006
“What Can Democratic Participation Mean Today?” Zheijiang University, Hangzhou, China,
November 20, 2004.
“The Democratic Functions of Appearance Standards,” Keynote address to the Society for
Applied Philosophy, University of Manchester, May 16, 2004.
“What Kind of Civil Society is Best for Democracy?” Conference on “Democracy: New
Challenges, New Horizons,” Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa,
Lisbon, May 8-9, 2003, and UNAM, Mexico City, January 24, 2005.
“What Should and Should Not Be Said: Deliberating Sensitive Issues.” Conference on
“Deliberative Democracy and Sensitive issues,” University of Amsterdam, March 25-26,
2003.
“A Second Transformation of Democracy?” Conference on New Forms of Democracy: The
Reform and Transformation of Democratic Institutions,” Rockefeller Foundation, Villa
Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy, September 9-13, 2002.
“What is the Political Role of Nonprofits in a Democracy?” Society Conference, “How
Independent is the Independent Sector?” Ethics and Public Policy Center and the New
America Foundation, Washington, DC, March 6-7, 2002.
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“Social Capital and Corruption,” European Science Foundation Conference: Social Capital:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Exeter, UK, September 15-20, 2001, University of
Victoria School of Law, October 29, 2004.
“What Kinds of Trust Do Democratic Institutions Need?” Keynote address at a conference
entitled “Trust in Democracy,” University of Groningen, The Netherlands, February 2223, 2001.
“What Can Democratic Participation Mean Today?” European Union Conference on
Globalization and Democracy, University of Santiago de Compostella, Spain, March
2000.
“Democracy and Association,” Columbia University (December, 1997), University of Maryland
(December 1999), Texas A & M University (April 2000), University of Toronto
(October 2000).
“Democracy and Trust,” Texas A & M University, Program on Democratization, April 4, 1997.
“Nietzsche and the Political,” Keynote address to the Nietzsche Society, meeting in conjunction
with the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Washington, DC,
October 10, 1996.
“What Should We Expect From More Democracy? Radically Democratic Responses to Politics,”
Henle Conference on Deliberative Democracy, Saint Louis University, April 19-20,
1996.
Four Lectures on Democratic Theory and Civil Society, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona),
May, 1995.
“Deliberative Democracy and Authority,” Autonoma University of Madrid, May, 1995.
“Languages of the Self in Democratic Theory,” Princeton Seminar on Political Theory, February,
1994.
Four Lectures on Democratic Theory, Autonoma University of Madrid, May, 1993.
“Democracy Theory and Self-Transformation.” Autonoma University of Madrid and Saint Louis
University, Madrid, May 8, 1992; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), May, 1993.
“When Does Reason Become Power?: Nietzsche and Weber,” Conference on Max Weber and
the Dialectic of Enlightenment, York University, October 30, 1988.
“Max Weber’s Liberalism for a Nietzschean World.” University of British Columbia, February,
1987; University of Southern California, February, 1987; Brock University, March,
1987; University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, December, 1987; Georgetown University,
February, 1988; McGill University, February, 1988; University of Massachusetts at
Amherst, February, 1988.
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“Marx’s Methodological Individualism.” York University, March, 1987.
“Nietzsche and Political Philosophy.” Harvard University, March, 1985; SUNY-Albany,
February, 1986.
“Hannah Arendt’s Concept of Politics.” Rice University, October, 1983; Southwest Texas State
University, June 8, 1984.
“Nietzsche’s Concept of Ideology.” Rice University, February 1983; University of Connecticut,
March 1984.
“Nietzsche, Nihilism, and Liberal Individualism.” University of Toronto, January, 1982; Rice
University, February, 1982.
“Nietzsche’s View of Cultural Evolution,” California State University at Humbolt, December,
1979.
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