Academic staff

Dr Gabriele Badano

Ethical principles applying to public administration; issues of justice and fairness in resource allocation; liberal theories of public justification and counter-speech.

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Professor Monica Brito Vieira

History of political thought and contemporary political theory; Thomas Hobbes; theories of political representation, the history and theory of democracy; populism; theories of rights; constitutionalism; natural law;  the materiality of ideas and processes of canon formation.

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Professor Sara de Jong

The politics of NGOs and global civil society; migration and refugees; postcolonialism, race and racism; gender, sexuality and feminist politics; the role of brokers in international development; co-optation of radical politics and complicity.

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Dr Kieran Durkin

Marx and Marxism; radical humanism; the humanist Marx.

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Professor Matthew Festenstein

Political theory and the history of political thought; American pragmatism; multiculturalism; political trust.

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Dr Adam Fusco

Political theory; neo-republicanism; non-nomination, democracy and constitutions; structural domination; secession; self-determination; Irish unionist and republican political thought; Northern Ireland constitutional politics.

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Dr Ruth Kelly

Cultural politics, citizenship practices, engaged political theory and feminist theory.

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Dr Alfred Moore

Deliberative democracy; social epistemology; the politics of expertise, technology and democracy.

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Professor Timothy Stanton

Hobbes and Locke; politics and religion; political theology; ideas of civil society and popular sovereignty.

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Professor Alan Thomas

Political philosophy; political economy; moral philosophy; and social epistemology.

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Dr Sara Van Goozen

Global ethics and contemporary just war theory; political obligation and sovereignty.

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