Research Interests for Ruth W. Grant

Research Interests: Politics and Ethics, Early Modern Political Philosophy

Ruth Grant is a Professor of Political Science at Duke University, specializing in political theory with a particular interest in early modern philosophy and political ethics. She is the author of John Locke's Liberalism and of Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics. She is also the editor of two collections of essays; Naming Evil, Judging Evil and In Search of Goodness. Her most recent book is Strings Attached: Untangling Ethics of Incentives. For further information please visit http://www.facebook.com/stringsattachedbook. Her work originally focused on the historical study of liberal thought and has moved increasingly toward contemporary ethics. Her articles have appeared in a variety of journals including APSR, Political Theory, Journal of Politics, and Politics and Society. She has received fellowship awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Humanities Center, and the Russell Sage Foundation, and a teaching award from Duke University.

Keywords:
Decision Making, Ethics, Research, Humans, Informed Consent, Motivation, Personal Autonomy, Philosophy, Self-interest
Recent Publications
  1. Grant, RW; Katzenstein, S; Kennedy, C, How Could They Let This Happen? Cover Ups, Complicity, and the Problem of Accountability, Res Publica (January, 2023) [doi] [abs]
  2. Grant, RW, Reflections on a Career, Perspectives on Political Science, vol. 50 no. 3 (January, 2021), pp. 154-157 [doi]
  3. Grant, RW, Incentives and praise compared: the ethics of motivation, International Review of Economics, vol. 66 no. 1 (March, 2019), pp. 17-28 [doi]
  4. Grant, RW; Keohane, RO, Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics, in Global Governance (January, 2017), pp. 467-481, ISBN 9781315254234 [doi] [abs]
  5. Grant, RW, Homo politicus: Reflections on the passions and the interests, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, vol. 34B (January, 2016), pp. 123-137, Emerald Group Publishing Limited [doi] [abs]