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Publications
Book
Between Samaritans and States: The Political Ethics of Humanitarian INGOs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
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Peer-Reviewed Publications
"Small Money Donating as Democratic Politics" Perspectives on Politics (2021), pp.20(3), 965-982. doi:10.1017/S153759272100308X
“The Virtuous Cycle Argument, Political Judgment, and Citizens’ Political Resistance” Journal of Intervention and State-building (2016). DOI: 10.1080/17502977.2018.1488436
"Emergency Claims and Democratic Action." Social Philosophy and Policy. Volume 32 No 1 (September 2015) pp. 101-126. A working paper, "Emergency Claims and Emergency Politics" also reflects my thinking on these issues.
"The Misuse of Power, Not Bad Representation: Why it is Beside the Point that No One Elected Oxfam." The Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 22 No 2 (2014) pp. 204-230.
“Pluralism about Global Poverty.” British Journal of Political Science Vol. 43 no. 4 (September 2013), pp. 775 - 797.
“Humanitarian NGOs’ Duties of Justice.” Journal of Social Philosophy Vol. 40 No. 4 (Winter 2009) pp. 524-541.
“Distribution and Emergency.” The Journal of Political Philosophy Vol. 15 No. 3 (Sept. 2007) pp. 296-320.
“Accountability in an Unequal World.” The Journal of Politics Vol. 69 No. 3 (August 2007) pp. 616-632.
Chapters in Edited Volumes
"From Influence for the Affected to Accountability for Influence: INGOs, the All-Affected Principle, and the Social Justice Organization Alternative" in Empowering Affected Interests: Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World Eds. Archon Fung and Sean W.D. Gray (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 202x) In production.
“The Political Legitimacy of International NGOs” in Knight, Jack, and Melissa Schwartzberg (eds), Political Legitimacy: NOMOS LXI (New York, NY, 2019; online edn, NYU Press Scholarship Online, 23 Jan. 2020), https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479888696.001.0001
“The Distributive Commitments of International NGOs” in Humanitarianism in Question, eds., Michael Barnett and Thomas Weiss. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008.
Selected Other Writing
"Introduction" to Critical Exchange on "Political and Ethical Action in the Age of Trump" Contemporary Political Theory (2018).
"The Lessons of Effective Altruism." Review essay on Peter Singer, The Most Good You Can Do and MacAskill, Doing Good Better. Ethics and International Affairs (Winter 2016).
A contribution to a forum on Effective Altruism in the Boston Review (July 2015).
"Being a Responsible Donor" Oxford University Press Blog (August 2015).
"What are the 'dos' and 'don'ts' of international donation?" Oxford University Press Blog (July 2015).
“Inducing Democracy in the Age of Eric Garner” Solicited response for a symposium on Corey Brettschneider’s book When the State Speaks What Should it Say? (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012) in Philosophy and Public Issues.
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