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Michael Goodhart (Ph.D. UCLA, 2000)

Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies

4815 Posvar Hall

michaelgoodhart@gmail.com

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My research focuses on democracy and human rights, especially in the context of globalization.  Current projects include papers on democratic accountability and supranational governance institutions, on the role of a transnational human rights regime in democratizing global power, and on the contractualist approaches to global justice.  I am also working on a book-length project on global economic injustice and democratic governance.

Curriculum Vitae

For .pdf version of my cv, click here; for a Word (.doc) version, click here

The image “http://www.routledge-ny.com/images/book-img/0415951771.gif” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors. Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization (Routledge 2005). 

For an overview of the book and for critical praise, click here.

To purchase a copy, visit the Routledge web site or your favorite online retailer

See the recent review in Perspectives on Politics 5, 3 (September 2007): 675-5.




Selected Publications

Europe’s Democratic Deficits Through the Looking Glass: The European Union as a Challenge for DemocracyPerspectives on Politics 5, 3 (September 2007): 567-84.

Children Born of War and Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections, in Born of War, ed. R. Charli Carpenter (Boomfield, CT, Kumarian Publishers, 200)195-216.


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‘None So Poor that He is Compelled to Sell Himself’; Democracy, Subsistence, and Basic Income, in Economic Rights, ed. Lanse Minkler and Shareen Hertel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007): 94-114.

econ rts

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Human Rights and Non-State Actors: Theoretical Puzzles, in Non-State Actors in the Human Rights Universe, ed. George Andreopoulos, Zehra F. Arat, and Peter Juviler.  Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Publishers, 2006.

 
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Civil Society and the Problem of Global DemocracyDemocratization 12,1 (February 2005), 1-21.     Abstract     .pdf

Origins and Universality in the Human Rights Debates: Cultural Essentialism and the Challenge of GlobalizationHuman Rights Quarterly 24,4 (November 2003), 935-64.     Abstract     .pdf

Sovereignty: Reckoning What is RealPolity 34,2 (Winter 2001), 241-57.
Abstract     .pdf

Democracy, Globalization, and the Problem of the StatePolity 33,4 (Summer 2001), 527-46.     Abstract     .pdf

Theory in Practice: Quentin Skinner's Hobbes, ReconsideredThe Review of Politics 62,3 (Summer 2000), 531-61.     Abstract     .pdf


Forthcoming

Sins of the Fathers: War Rape, Wrongful Procreation, and Children’s Human Rights (forthcoming 2007, Journal of Human Rights).


A Democratic Defense of Universal Basic Income, in Illusion of Consent: Essays after Carole Pateman, ed. Iris M. Young, Mary L. Shanley, and Daniel I. O’Neill (forthcoming 2008, Pennsylvania State University Press).





News
The University of Pittsburgh will host a conference on "The Transnational Human Rights Regime since 9/11" on 17-19 April 2008.  The call for papers is now available by clicking here.  You can also link to the conference homepage.

On September 27 I presented a lecture, "Democratic Roots," as part of the Saul O. Sidore Memorial Lecture Series at the University of New Hampshire.  This year's series is entitled Exploring Democracy at Home and Abroad.  For more information click here.


I have recently joined Carnegie Mellon University's Center for the Advancement of Applied Ethics and Political Philosophy

Links
The following links are to organizations with which I am affiliated or which might be useful to students of political theory, democracy, and human rights.

The APSA's Human Rights Organized Section.

POLITY: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association.

The Women's Studies Program at Pitt.

The Center for West European Studies/
European Union Center
at Pitt.

The Global Studies program at Pitt.

The University of Maryland's Democracy Collaborative.

The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs.


The American Political Science Association.

The APSA's Foundations of Political Theory organized section.

Citizens for Global Solutions



Courses/Syllabi



PS 0600 Political Theory & Analysis

PS 0650 (UHC) Politics & Liberal Democracy

PS 1607 American Political Thought

PS 1622 Women and Political Theory

PS 1629 Topics in Political Theory: Human Rights

PS 1681 Honors Seminar

PS 2606 Contemporary Theories of Justice

PS 2607 Democratic Theory & Democratization

PS 2620 Global Justice


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