Daniel Hutton Ferris
Lecturer in Political Theory
Newcastle University
About
I'm a political theorist at Newcastle University.
Last year I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford's Center for Ethics and before that I studied in Oxford, Frankfurt, and Toronto.
My main research interest is in democratic theory; I interpret and evaluate novel forms of representation and participation.
I also work in the history of political thought and comparative political theory.
Publications
American Journal of Political Science, online first.
Click here for a short summary on the AJPS blog.
"Civic Virtue in the Deliberative System"
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 2019.
Work in Progess
An article comparing the theories of world peace proposed by Kang Youwei and Immanuel Kant.
An article developing a Hobbesian theory of "democratic legibility", with Zak Black.
An article exploring the relative merits of lottocratic and psephocratic legislatures.
An article proposing a social democratic second legislative chamber.
An article investigating the virtues of Ranked Choice Voting (specifically: the Alternative Vote) in the US.
Employment & Education
Stanford University
Postdoctoral Researcher (Center for Ethics)
University of Toronto
PhD Political Science
Goethe University
Visiting Scholar (Forst Kolloquium)
University of Oxford
MPhil Politics & BA PPE
Teaching
Graduate
Stanford University
Moral Theory and Current Debates
Undergraduate
University of Toronto
Contact
Henry Daysh Building 429,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
England UK,
NE1 7RU
daniel.huttonferris@newcastle.ac.uk
+447943577744