Research Interests for Alexander Kirshner

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

Keywords:

Democracy

Recent Publications

1. Kirshner, AS, Legitimate opposition (September, 2022), pp. 1-282, ISBN 9780300243468 [abs]
2. 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]
3. Rubenstein, J; Dovi, S; Pineda, ER; Woodly, D; Kirshner, AS; El Amine, L; Muirhead, R, Political and ethical action in the age of Trump, Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 17 no. 3 (August, 2018), pp. 331-362, Springer Nature [doi]
4. Kirshner, AS, Nonideal democratic authority: The case of undemocratic elections, Politics, Philosophy & Economics, vol. 17 no. 3 (August, 2018), pp. 257-276, SAGE Publications [doi] [abs]
5. Kirshner, AS, Legitimate opposition, ostracism, and the law of democracy in ancient athens, Journal of Politics, vol. 78 no. 4 (October, 2016), pp. 1094-1106, University of Chicago Press [doi] [abs]