Daniel Hutton Ferris
Lecturer in Political Theory and Philosophy
Newcastle University
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About
I'm a political theorist at Newcastle University.
Before coming to Newcastle I was a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University's Center for Ethics and studied in Oxford, Frankfurt and Toronto.
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My main research interest is in democratic theory; I interpret and evaluate novel forms of representation and participation.
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I also work on the history of political thought and comparative political theory.
Publications
Journal of Politics, online first.
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"Lottocracy or Psephocracy? Democracy, Elections, and Random Selection"
European Journal of Political Theory, online first.
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American Journal of Political Science, online first.
Click here for a short summary on the AJPS blog.
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"Democratic Peace Beyond Westphalia: Kang and Kant"
Comparative Political Theory, Vol 3, Issue 1 (2023)
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"Civic Virtue in the Deliberative System"
Journal of Deliberative Democracy, Vol. 15, Issue 1 (2019).
Work in Progess
An article evaluating the democratic credentials of north-American Indigenous customary governments.
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An article on democratic responsiveness and ranked choice voting in the US.
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An article developing a theory of democratic writing, with Zak Black.
Other Writing
Review of Simone Chambers, Contemporary Democratic Theory, at Review of Politics, 87.1.
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"Kang Youwei: the revolutionary thinker and reformer behind modern China's transformation", at The Conversation, 2024.​