Simone Chambers

Publications

  • “Democracy and Constitutional Reform: Deliberative versus populist constitutionalism” Philosophy and Social Criticism (forthcoming).
  • “Truth, Deliberative Democracy and the Virtues of Accuracy: Is fake news destroying the public sphere?” Special Issue of Political Studies (forthcoming).
  • “Putting Reasons Back into Reasonable,” in Civic Freedom in Age of Diversity: The Public Philosophy of James Tully. Edited by Dimitrios and Jocelyn Maclure. McGill-Queen’s University Press (forthcoming).
  • Dryzek J, Bächtiger A and Chambers S, et al. “The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation.” Science 363 (6432): 1144-1146 (2018).
  • “Experts, Politicians, and Public Opinion: Allan Blakeney and Unpacking Democratic Accountability,” in University of Regina Press (2019).
  • “Deliberative Democracy,” in Habermas Lexicon. Edited by Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta. Cambridge University Press (2019).
  • “Constitutional State and Constitutionalization,” in Habermas Lexicon. Edited by Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta. Cambridge University Press (2019).
  • “The Philosophic Origins of Deliberative Ideals, in The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy. Edited by André Bächtiger, John Dryzek, Jane Mansbridge, and Mark Warren. Oxford University Press (2018).
  • “Kickstarting the Bootstrapping: Jürgen Habermas, deliberative constitutionalization, and the limits of proceduralism,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism. Edited by Ron Levy, Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr and Jeff King. Cambridge University Press, 2018: 256-372.
  • “Afterword: Populist Constitutionalism v. Deliberative Constitutionalism,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Deliberative Constitutionalism. Edited by Ron Levy, Hoi Kong, Graeme Orr and Jeff King. Cambridge University Press, 2018: 370-372.
  • “Making Referendums Safe for Democracy: A Call for More and Better Deliberation,” in Swiss Political Science Review 24 (September 2018) 3.
  • “Civility within Context: A comment on Teresa Bejan’s Mere Civility.” Review of Politics 80 (2018) 3:525-528
  • “Human Life is Group Life”: Deliberative Democracy for Realists.” Critical Review on line June 2018 DOI: 10.1080/08913811.2018.1466852
  • “Is it Enough to Just Say No to Nazis? Comments on Stephen White’s A Democratic Bearing.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 44 (2018) 2: 121-125.
  • “Jürgen Habermas, Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy,” in The Oxford Handbook of the Classics of Political Theory. Edited by Jacob Levy 2017. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198717133.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198717133-e-3
  • “The Epistemic Ideal of Reason-Giving in Deliberative Democracy.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 6, no. 10 (2017): 59-64.
  • “Balancing Epistemic Quality and Equal Participation in a Systems Approach to Deliberative Democracy.” Social Epistemology 31(2017) 3: 266-276.
  • “Navigating Pluralism: Beiner on Habermas.” The Review of Politics 78 (2016), 1-4.
  • “Democracy and Critique: Comments on Rainer Forst’s Justification and Critique: Towards a Critical Theory of Politics.” Philosophy and Social Criticism 4 (2015)3: 213-217.
  • “An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation,” in Transformations of Democracy: Crisis, Protest and Legitimation. Edited by Robin Celikales, Regina Kreide and Tilo Wesche. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
  • “Introduction,” with Peter Nosco in Dissent on Core Beliefs: Religious and Secular Perspectives. An Ethikon series book.  Edited Simone Chambers and Peter Nosco Cambridge University Press, 2015.
  • “Free Speech and Civility in Pluralist Societies,” in After the Paris Attacks: responses in Canada, Europe, and around the Globe. Edited by Edward M. Iacobucci and Stephen J. Toope. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015.
  • Dissent on Core Beliefs: Religious and Secular Perspectives. An Ethikon series book.  Edited with Peter Nosco (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • Dissent on Core Beliefs: Religious and Secular Perspectives. An Ethikon series book.  Edited with Peter Nosco (Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • “The Many Faces of Good Citizenship.” Critical Review 25(2013): 199-209.
  • “Reason, Reasons, Reasoning: Three Faces of Public Justification,” in Proceedings of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie XXII. Edited by Julian Nida-Rümelin 2012.
  • “Deliberation and Mass Democracy,” in Deliberative Systems. Edited by Jane Mansbridge and John Parkinson. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Jane Mansbridge, James Bohman, Simone Chambers, Thomas Christiano, Archon Fung, John Parkinson, Dennis F. Thompson, and Mark Warren, “A Systemic Approach to Deliberative Democracy,” in Deliberative Systems Edited by Jane Mansbridge and John Parkinson. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
  • Simone Chambers and Patti Lenard, “Reflections on the democratic deficit in Canada and the United States” in Imperfect Democracies. Edited by Richard Simeon and Patti Lenard. UBC Press, 2012.
  • “Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics of Property-Owning Democracy,” in Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond.  Edited by Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson. Oxford: Blackwell-Wiley, 2012.
  • “Response to ‘On Communitarian and Global Sources of Legitimacy.’’ Review of Politics 73 (2011) 1: 123-128.
  • George Thomas Kurian, James Alt, Simone Chambers, Geoffrey Garrett, Margaret Levi, Paula McClain (Editors). The Encyclopedia of Political Science. (2011) CQ Press, Vol 1-5, 1802 pages.
  • “Theories of Political Justification.” Philosophy Compass 5 (2010) 1: 893-903.
  • “Who Shall Judge?  Hobbes, Locke and Kant on the Construction of Public Reason” Ethics and Global Politics 2:4 (2009)
  • “Rhetoric and the Public Sphere: Has deliberative democracy abandoned mass democracy?” Political Theory 37:6 (2009).
  • “Open versus Closed Constitutional Negotiation,” in Deliberative Democracy in Practice. Edited by David Kahane, Daniel Weinstock, Dominique Leydet, and Melissa Williams. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2009
  • “ ‘It is Not in Heaven!’ Adjudicating Hard Cases,” in Multiculturalism and the Law: A Critical Debate. Edited by Omid Payrow Shabani. University of Wales Press, 2007
  • “How Religion Speaks to the Agnostic: Habermas on the Persistent Value of Religion.” Constellations 14:2 (June 2007)
  • “The Politics of Equality: Rawls on the Barricades,” Perspectives on Politics, 4:1 (March, 2006).
  • “Civil Society and the State,” with Jeffrey Kopstein, Oxford Handbook of Political Theory. Edited by John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, Anne Phillips. Oxford University Press, 2006.
  • “Measuring Publicity’s Effect: Reconciling Empirical Research and Normative Theory,” Acta Politica, 40:2 (2005).
  • “Representing Pluralism: A Comment on Pyrcz, Warren, and Kernerman,” in Representation and Democracy. Edited by David Laycock. Vancouver:  UBC Press, 2004.
  • “The Politics of Contemporary Critical Theory,” in The Cambridge Companion to Critical Theory.  Edited by Fred Rush, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
  • “Behind Closed Doors: Publicity, Secrecy, and the Quality of Deliberation,” Journal of Political Philosophy, 12:4 (2004)
  • “Democratizing Humility: Comment on Dolovich,” Buffalo Criminal Law Review, 7:2 (2004)
  • “Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy,” Constellations 11:2 (June 2004).
  • “Deliberative Democratic Theory,” Annual Review of Political Science, 6 (2003).
  • “Can Procedural Democracy be Radical?” in Studies in Contemporary Continental Political Philosophy.  Edited by David Ingram. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002
  • “Critical Theory and Ethical Pluralism: A Response to Bill Scheuerman,” in The Many and the One: Religious and Secular Perspectives on Ethical Pluralism in the Modern World.  Edited by Richard Madsen and Tracy Strong. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.
  • “Seeking Intersubjective Insight: Comments on William Rheg’s Insight and Solidarity. Human Studies, 25 (2002).
  • Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Edited with Will Kymlicka. Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, December 2001.
  • “Bad Civil Society,” co-authored with Jeffrey Kopstein, Political Theory, 29: 6 (December 2001).
  • “Constitutional Referendums and Democratic Deliberation,” in Referendum Democracy: Studies in Citizen Participation. Edited by Matthew Mendelsohn and Andrew Parkin. New York: Palgrave, 2001.
  • “A Critical Theory of Civil Society,” in Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Edited by Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • “Introduction: Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society,” with Will Kymlicka, in Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Edited by Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
  • “Democracy, Habermas, and Canadian Exceptionalism,” in Canadian Political Philosophy. Edited by Ronald Beiner and Wayne Norman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
  • “A Culture of Publicity,” in Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media.  Edited by Simone Chambers and Anne Costain. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
  • Deliberation, Democracy, and the Media.  Edited with Anne Costain. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.
  • “The Cultural Foundations of Public Policy: A Comment on Georgia Warnke,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, 26 (2000).
  • “Constitutionalism in a divided political Culture: Canada,” in Verfassung und politische Kultur. Edited by Jürgen Gebhardt. Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999.
  • “Contract or Conversation: Theoretical Lessons from the Canadian Constitutional Crisis.” Politics and Society, 26:1 (1998)
  • Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse.  Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996.
  • “Discourse and Democratic Practices” in Companion to Habermas.  Edited by Stephen K. White.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  • “Feminist Discourse/Practical Discourse” in Feminists Read Habermas: Gendering the Subject of Discourse. Edited by Johanna Meehan.  London: Routledge, 1995.
  • “Talking About Rights: Discourse Ethics and the Protection of Rights,” Journal of Political Philosophy 1:3 (Oct. 1993).
  • “Zur Politik des Diskurses: Riskieren wir unsere Rechte?”in Zur Anwendung der Diskursethik in Politik, Recht und Wissenschaft.  Edited by Karl-Otto Apel and Matthias Kettner.  Frankfurt: Suhrkamp-Verlag, 1992.

 

Non-refereed Articles, Book Reviews, Invited Web Commentaries.

  • Book review of Jason Brennan, Against Democracy, in Perspectives on Politics 16 (June 2018) 2: 503-505.
  • Book review of Jeffrey Edward Green, The Shadow of Unfairness: A Plebeian Theory of Liberal Democracy and Ali Aslam. Ordinary Democracy: Sovereignty and Citizenship Beyond the Neoliberal Impasse in Review of Politics 80(2018) 1.
  • Book review of Axel Honneth, Freedom’s Right: The Social Foundations of Democratic Life in Ethics, 126 (January 2016) 2: 505-509.
  • Book review of Mark Wenman, Agonistic Democracy: Constituent Power in the Era of Globalization in Review of Politics 77 (2015) 4.
  • Book review of Anthony Simone Laden, Reasoning: A Social Picture, in Contemporary Political Theory, online 21 October 2014.
  • The Charter of Quebec values.  Invited comment on SSRC blog The Immanent Frame http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2014/02/20/the-charter-of-quebec-values/.
  • Book review of Jürgen Habermas, The Crisis of the European Union: A Response, in Social Forces, online 14 may 2013.
  • Book review of Jack Knight and James Johnson, The Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism and Steven Bilakovics, Democracy without Politics. Cambridge, in Perspectives on Politics 11 (March 2013) 1.
  • Book review of Political Philosophy versus History? Contextualism and Real Politics in Contemporary Political Thought, edited by Jonathan Floyd and Marc Stears, in Political Theory 41:4 pp. 676-679.
  • “Secularism Minus Exclusion: Developing a Religious-Friendly Idea of Public Reason,”  The Good Society, (2010) 19:2, pp. 16-21
  • Book review of Krause, Sharon R.. Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation .Ethics 119:3 (2009): pp 571-576
  • “Do good philosophers make good citizens”: invited  comment on SSRC blog: The Immanent Frame   http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2009/03/05/do-good-philosophers-make-good-citizens/
  • “Taking religion seriously”:  invited comment on SSRC blog: The Immanent Frame

http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/03/05/taking-religion-seriously/

    • Book review of Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Barlett Deliberative Environmental Politics: Democracy and Ecological Rationality. Political Science Quarterly. 122:2 (summer 07).
  • Book review of Stephen Eric Bronner, Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. CJPS  39:04 (Dec. 2006)
  • Book review of Michael Rabinder James, Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity.

Perspectives on Politics, 3:2 (June 2005)

  • Book review of Charles Blattberg, From Pluralist to Patriotic Politics: Putting Practice First. Canadian Journal of Political Science 36 (September 2003):940-941.
  • Book review of Glen Newey, After Politics: The rejection of Politics in Contemporary Liberal Philosophy.  American Political Science Review 96 (Dec. 2002): 808-809.
  • Book review of Stephen K. White, Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory.  Constellations Vol. 9 2002, no. 3, pp. 445-447.
  • Book review of Alain Touraine, What is Democracy?. Ethics, January 1999.
  • Book review of Catholicism, Liberalism, Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy, edited by Kenneth L. Grasso, Gerard V. Bradley, and Robert P. Hunt.  American Political Science Review. 90:3 (September 1996), pp. 627-628.
  • Book review of Mark Kingwell, A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism. American Political Science Review. 89:4 (December 1995), pp. 1015-1016.
  • Book review of Seyla Benhabib, Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics. Political Studies. XLIII (1995), pp. 173-174.
  • Book review of Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment, edited by Axel Honneth, Thomas McCarthy, Claus Offe, and Albrecht Wellmer. American Political Science Review. 88:1 (March 1994), pp. 215-216.
  • Review Essay: “David Gauthier’s Moral Dealing: Contract, Ethics, and Reason,”

International Hobbes Association Newsletter. No. 13 (June 1991), pp. 3-6.