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Claudio Lopez-Guerra Assistant Professor Department of Political Studies CIDE, Mexico City
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Welcome. I am a
political philosopher at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics
(CIDE) in Mexico City. I received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia
University in New York in 2008. My primary interest is the philosophical analysis of current
problems in public life. Questions of institutional design in relation to
democracy and social justice are central to my work. My approach to political
theory is normative rather than historical, problem-centered rather than
author-centered, and practical rather than abstract. My work has appeared
in such journals as The Journal of
Political Philosophy; Politics, Philosophy & Economics, and Social Theory and Practice. |
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claudio.lopezguerra@cide.edu cide, division de
estudios politicos carretera mexico-toluca
3655 mexico d.f., 01210,
mexico, +52 55 57279828 |
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- "Comparing Voting Lotteries: A
Response to Saunders," Politics, Philosophy, & Economics, forthcoming. - "Enfranchising Minors and the
Mentally Impaired." Social Theory and Practice. Vol 38. No. 1 (January
2012). - "The Enfranchisement Lottery."
Politics, Philosophy, & Economics. Vol 10. No. 2. 2011.
- "Against the Parallel Case for
Workplace Democracy." Journal of Economic Philosophy / Revue de
Philosophie ƒconomique. Vol 9. No. 1. 2008. -
"Should Expatriates Vote?" The Journal of Political Philosophy.
Vol. 13. No. 2. 2005. " - "Tocqueville
on Catholicism and Democracy." The
Tocqueville Review. Vol. XXV. No. 2. 2004. pp. 141-162. More
publications and work under review: CV. I am
currently working on two projects: A. The
Right to Vote I have a book manuscript on the ethics of electoral
exclusions that is currently under review. The book challenges some of the
most widely accepted views on the allocation of the right to vote. It argues
that in some realistic and desirable circumstances it is acceptable to
disfranchise the vast majority of the adult population of a state for lacking
an optimal level of voting information, and adopt instead an elitist system
called Òthe enfranchisement lottery.Ó It also argues that, in a system with universal
suffrage, the disfranchisement of children, the mentally impaired, felons,
and resident aliens is hard to justify, whereas the exclusion of nonresident citizens
is generally valid. The book examines the morality of these issues directly
rather than from the perspective of Òdemocratic theory,Ó an approach that is
found wanting. The current table of contents looks as
follows: 1. Introduction: The Ethics of
Electoral Exclusions 2.
Disfranchisement on the Basis of Suboptimal Competence 3.
Disfranchisement on the Basis of Subminimal Competence 4.
Disfranchisement on the Basis of Non-Residency and Non-Citizenship 5.
Disfranchisement on the Basis of Felony Convictions 6.
Disfranchisement and the Limits of Democratic Theory 7.
Conclusion B. Justice in Immigration The current debate on the ethics
of immigration focuses on the requirements of justice regarding the claims of
outsiders versus the claims of insiders who wish to restrict immigration
flux. In this project I consider what is owed as a matter of justice to
insiders who would want to invite outsiders to move in the polity. This
project is in its early stages, but some written work is available upon
request. I am currently teaching Introduction to Political Science and Contemporary Political Theory at the
undergraduate level. A sample syllabus for a graduate seminar on Issues in Democratic Theory and Practice
can be downloaded here. |