Stuart White is Associate Professor of Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, which he joined in 2000 after three years at MIT where he gained a Career Development Research Award for his teaching. His research focuses centrally on democracy, citizenship and property rights and the question of what rights to resources we should have as members of a democratic community. Relevant publications include Radical Republicanism, co-edited with Bruno Leipold and Karma Nabulsi, forthcoming,and Building a Citizen Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy. London: Lawrence and Wishart. Co-edited with Daniel Leighton. 2008.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAlternative liberal solutions to economic inequality
The rich tradition of alternative liberalism has much to offer by way of solutions to inexorably widening...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWelcome to the Great Charter Debate
Next year is the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta. Calls for a constitutional convention have now reached...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKSo what is a people’s constitutional convention?
What exactly is a people's constitutional convention and does Labour's proposal meet those criteria?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTaking democracy seriously demands that we identify and address the danger of oligarchy
What institutions do we need to secure our freedom from the danger of oligarchy? From Machiavelli to modern Brazil,...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan democrats learn from Machiavelli?
Robert Jubb and Stuart White interview John McCormick about his 2011 book, Machiavellian Democracy, and ask what...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe dignity of dissent: E.P. Thompson and One Nation Labour
E.P. Thompson was an advocator of freedom of speech and maintaining every citizen's right to dissent. In light of...