Alexander Kirshner, Professor

Alexander Kirshner
Contact Info:
Office Location:  140 Science Drive, 204K Gross, Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address:  
Web Page:   http://sites.duke.edu/kirshner/

Teaching (Fall 2025):

Education:

Ph.D., Yale University, 2011
Specialties:

Political Theory
Research Interests:

My research cuts across democratic theory, comparative politics and constitutional law. I have just completed a book investigating the paradoxical ethical dilemmas raised by antidemocratic opposition to democratic government (forthcoming-Yale University Press). My current research explores the intellectual history and practice of legitimate opposition and the competition between religious parties in contemporary Egypt and Tunisia

Curriculum Vitae
Recent Publications   (More Publications)

  1. Kirshner, AS; Spinner-Halev, J, Why Political Philosophy Should Be Robust, American Political Science Review, vol. 118 no. 4 (November, 2024), pp. 1658-1670 [doi]  [abs].
  2. Kirshner, AS, Legitimate opposition (September, 2022), pp. 1-282 [doi]  [abs].
  3. Kirshner, AS, Can liberal integrity handle disagreement? Perhaps not, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 24 no. 4 (January, 2021), pp. 642-649 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Kirshner, A, What Is Christian Democracy? Politics, Religion and Ideology. By Carlo Invernizzi Accetti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 396p. $120.00 cloth., Perspectives on Politics, vol. 18 no. 3 (September, 2020), pp. 938-939, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi] .
  5. Kirshner, AS, WHY NO GOOD, VERY BAD, ELITIST DEMOCRACY IS AN ACHIEVEMENT, NOT A FAILURE, in DEMOCRATIC FAILURE, vol. 63 (2020), pp. 79-98 .