Publications
“Pericles as a ‘Man of Athens’: Democratic Theory and Advantage in Thucydides.” History of Political Thought, Vol. 39 No. 2 (2018) 235-268.
“Compromise as a Moral Requirement: the Possibility of Forming A Democratic Camp in Israel.” in Ameer Fakhory (ed.) “Alliances Within Reach: The Arab Palestinian Minority in the Israeli Political Field.” Special Issue, Pulse 1 (August 2018). 97-117. [in Hebrew and Arabic].
“Introduction: Democratic inclusion, Deliberation, and Representation Across Borders” Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, vol. 10, No. 2. 2018.
“Teaching Ethics Using Simulations: Active Learning Exercises in Political Theory.” (with Christopher Robichaud). Journal of Political Science Education. (2019). DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2019.1568879.
"Thucydides as a prospect theorist." With Josiah Ober. Polis: the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 31. 2014.
“Compromise as a Moral Requirement: the Possibility of Forming A Democratic Camp in Israel.” in Ameer Fakhory (ed.) “Alliances Within Reach: The Arab Palestinian Minority in the Israeli Political Field.” Special Issue, Pulse 1 (August 2018). 97-117. [in Hebrew and Arabic].
“Introduction: Democratic inclusion, Deliberation, and Representation Across Borders” Global Justice: Theory, Practice, Rhetoric, vol. 10, No. 2. 2018.
“Teaching Ethics Using Simulations: Active Learning Exercises in Political Theory.” (with Christopher Robichaud). Journal of Political Science Education. (2019). DOI: 10.1080/15512169.2019.1568879.
"Thucydides as a prospect theorist." With Josiah Ober. Polis: the Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 31. 2014.
Working Papers
"Deliberative Democracy as Procedural Justice: Justifying Social Power"
Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, November 2016. Winner of the NPSA McWilliams prize for best paper in political theory.
"Global Public Reason"
Stanford University, Political Theory Workshop, January 2016
“The All-Affected Principle: A Pluralistic Interpretation”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, April 2015
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, September 2015.
“Autonomy, Culture and Nationality: The Failure of Liberal Nationalism.”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, April 2014
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Washington,DC, August 2014
Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, October 2014
"Elitist Democracy and Democratic Advantage in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War
Democratic Advantage in Thucydides.”
Earlier version of the forthcoming paper, presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference in Chicago, April 2012
"Following Your Heart with Eyes Wide Open: the Moral Failure of Political Realism."
May 2012, Draft
“Picking the Right Players: Applying the Perceptive Interpretation of Game Theory to
Rational-Choice Institutionalism.”
The Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics at Stanford, June 2011
Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, November 2016. Winner of the NPSA McWilliams prize for best paper in political theory.
"Global Public Reason"
Stanford University, Political Theory Workshop, January 2016
“The All-Affected Principle: A Pluralistic Interpretation”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Las Vegas, NV, April 2015
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, September 2015.
“Autonomy, Culture and Nationality: The Failure of Liberal Nationalism.”
Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, April 2014
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Washington,DC, August 2014
Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, October 2014
"Elitist Democracy and Democratic Advantage in Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War
Democratic Advantage in Thucydides.”
Earlier version of the forthcoming paper, presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference in Chicago, April 2012
"Following Your Heart with Eyes Wide Open: the Moral Failure of Political Realism."
May 2012, Draft
“Picking the Right Players: Applying the Perceptive Interpretation of Game Theory to
Rational-Choice Institutionalism.”
The Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics at Stanford, June 2011
Dissertation
Title: Democratic Justice in Global Affairs.
Committee: Joshua Cohen (co-chair), Rob Reich (co-chair), Alison McQueen, David Holloway
My dissertation presents a reformulation of deliberative democracy as a theory of procedural justice, with the goal of applying democratic principles to the global context. It seeks to address the question: what does deliberative democracy require if we don't assume either a bounded demos or state institutions? Global decision-making already exists and is consequential; in additional, a host of global challenges may require expanding existing global institutions. Therefore, we need a theory that provides procedural standards in the global context. Democracy seems a fitting contender, but recent democratic theory has evolved, for the most part, against the background assumptions of a bounded community (that acts as a demos) and state institutions. It follows that democratic theory needs revising before it can be applied in the global context. To address that, I present a novel theory of democratic justice. I argue that decision-making processes are a distinct matter of justice that I call procedural justice. Furthermore, I argue that deliberative democracy is best seen as a theory of procedural justice and not as a theory of legitimacy or justified authority. Democracy is made relevant to global affairs by reformulating the concept of global public reason: the set of political values and principles for assessing political action that can be globally share. I argue that global public reason must rely on foundational democratic ideas such as the conceptions of global citizens as free and equal persons and of global society as a system of fair cooperation. Global public reason is a repository of values and principles that global citizens can expect others to accept. One such principle is the all-affected principle (AAP). I consider the boundary problem of democratic theory and offer an answer on the basis of a pluralistic interpretation of the AAP. I reformulate the AAP to overcome the charges of vagueness, circularity and indeterminacy that plague the formulation common in the existing literature. The AAP has to be interpreted pluralistically—people who are affected differently have different participation rights in decision-making processes. In the conclusion I apply my criteria to global decision-making structures. I argue that the processes of global norm formation as well as the decision-making structures of international organizations could be democratized by fostering and maintaining new avenues of participation and deliberation for affected people whose voices are missing from the current global conversation. Though many NGOs, activists, journalists and bureaucrats are already working to expand a global conversation on matters of global concern, there is more work to be done in order to create transnational communities of common concerns and global fora for deliberation.
Committee: Joshua Cohen (co-chair), Rob Reich (co-chair), Alison McQueen, David Holloway
My dissertation presents a reformulation of deliberative democracy as a theory of procedural justice, with the goal of applying democratic principles to the global context. It seeks to address the question: what does deliberative democracy require if we don't assume either a bounded demos or state institutions? Global decision-making already exists and is consequential; in additional, a host of global challenges may require expanding existing global institutions. Therefore, we need a theory that provides procedural standards in the global context. Democracy seems a fitting contender, but recent democratic theory has evolved, for the most part, against the background assumptions of a bounded community (that acts as a demos) and state institutions. It follows that democratic theory needs revising before it can be applied in the global context. To address that, I present a novel theory of democratic justice. I argue that decision-making processes are a distinct matter of justice that I call procedural justice. Furthermore, I argue that deliberative democracy is best seen as a theory of procedural justice and not as a theory of legitimacy or justified authority. Democracy is made relevant to global affairs by reformulating the concept of global public reason: the set of political values and principles for assessing political action that can be globally share. I argue that global public reason must rely on foundational democratic ideas such as the conceptions of global citizens as free and equal persons and of global society as a system of fair cooperation. Global public reason is a repository of values and principles that global citizens can expect others to accept. One such principle is the all-affected principle (AAP). I consider the boundary problem of democratic theory and offer an answer on the basis of a pluralistic interpretation of the AAP. I reformulate the AAP to overcome the charges of vagueness, circularity and indeterminacy that plague the formulation common in the existing literature. The AAP has to be interpreted pluralistically—people who are affected differently have different participation rights in decision-making processes. In the conclusion I apply my criteria to global decision-making structures. I argue that the processes of global norm formation as well as the decision-making structures of international organizations could be democratized by fostering and maintaining new avenues of participation and deliberation for affected people whose voices are missing from the current global conversation. Though many NGOs, activists, journalists and bureaucrats are already working to expand a global conversation on matters of global concern, there is more work to be done in order to create transnational communities of common concerns and global fora for deliberation.
©Tomer J. Perry