Just Elections

Dennis F. Thompson is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University. He is the author of Political Ethics and Public Office, Ethics in Congress and coauthor of Democracy and Disagreement.

"With Just Elections, Dennis Thompson sets out to do something timely, needed, and not yet tackled in similar fashion. Using the disputed 2000 presidential election as a catalyst for exploring a broad array of other contested structural issues currently on the political and constitutional agenda, Thompson integrates democratic theory with the nitty-gritty detail of institutional practices and policy issues in a way that not only extols the virtues of situating theory in concrete contexts but actually pulls off the difficult task of doing that in a productive way. Just Elections is a genuine achievement in the application of political theory to specific problems in the legal structuring of democratic practices." - Richard Pildes, New York University School of Law