Publications

     

      BOOKS

      ARTICLES

      REVIEWS

  • Review of ‘The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority,’ by Michael Dichio,” 49 Publius: The Journal of Federalism 11 (2019) (review of Michael Dichio, The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority (2018)).
  • Review of ‘The US Supreme Court and the Domestic Force of International Human Rights Law,’ by Stephen Simon,” Law and Politics Book Review, September 2017 (review of Stephen Simon, The US Supreme Court and the Domestic Force of International Human Rights Law (2016)).
  • Review of ‘Democracy For Realists,’ by Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels,” History News Network, July 19, 2016 (review of Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels, Democracy for Realists: Why Elections do not Produce Responsive Government (2016)).
  • Book Review,” Federalist Society Review, (June 2016) (review of Randy E. Barnett, Our Republican Constitution: Securing the Liberty and Sovereignty of We the People (2016)).
  • Review,” The Independent Review (Spring 2015) (review of Frank Buckley,  The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America (2014)).
  • Turning Federalism Right-Side Up,” 82 Constitutional Commentary 303 (2012) (review of Michael Greve, The Upside-Down Constitution (2012)).
  • The Economics of Takings,” Regulation (Spring 2012), at 54 (review of Thomas Miceli, The Economic Theory of Eminent Domain: Private Property, Public Use (2011)).
  • “Review,” 31 Cato Journal 162 (2011) (review of Alison LaCroix, The Ideological Origins of American Federalism (2010)).
  • Democracy and Political Knowledge in Ancient Athens, 119 Ethics 585 (2009) (review of Josiah Ober, Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (2008)).
  • Lessons From the Rise of Legal Conservatism,” 32 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 415 (2009) (review of Steven Teles, The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement (2007)) (invited review).
  • ‘Active Liberty’ and Judicial Power: What Should Courts do to Promote Democracy?,” 100 Northwestern University Law Review 1827 (2006) (review of Stephen E. Breyer, Active Liberty: Interpreting our Democratic Constitution (2005)).
  • Judicial Power and Civil Rights Reconsidered,” 114 Yale Law Journal 591 (2004) (review of Michael Klarman, From Jim Crow to Civil Rights (2004)) (with David E. Bernstein).
  • Wise Crowds? When the Many Know More than the Few,Humane Studies Review, Sept. 2005 (review of James Surowiecki, Wise Crowds: When the Many are Smarter than the Few and How Collective Wisdom Shapes Business, Economics, Societies, and Nations (2004)).
  • “Pragmatism and Democracy: Rejoinder to Richard Posner,” 16 Critical Review 473 (2004).
  • Richard Posner’s Democratic Pragmatism,” 16 Critical Review 1 (2004) (review of Richard A. Posner, Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy (2003)).
  • Review, 23 Cato Journal 475 (2004) (review of Ian Shapiro, The State of Democratic Theory (2003)).
  • “Do Politicians Pander?” 14 Critical Review 147 (2001) (review of Lawrence Jacobs and Robert Shapiro, Politicians Don’t Pander (2000)).
  • Resolving the Democratic Dilemma?” 16 Yale Journal on Regulation 401 (1999)  (review of Arthur Lupia and Matthew McCubbins, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What they Need to Know? (1998)).
  • “Book Review,” The European Legacy, Feb. 1998, at 129 (review of  Richard Sakwa, Russian Politics and Society (1997)).

      BOOK CHAPTERS

  • Top-Down and Bottom-Up Solutions to the Problem of Political Ignorance,” in The Epistemology of Democracy, (Hana Samaržija and Quassim Cassam, eds., Routledge, 2023).
  • “Procedural Requirements for Administrative Limits to Property Rights in the United States of America,” in Procedural Requirements for Administrative Limits to Property Rights, (Martina Conticelli and Thomas Perroud, eds., Oxford University Press, 2022).
  • “Rational Ignorance,” in Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, (Matthias Gross and Linsey J. McGoey, eds., Routledge,  rev. ed., 2022).
  • “No More Fair-Weather Federalism,” in James Morone and Ryan Emenaker, Current Debates in American Government, (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2022) (reprinted from National Review).
  • “Is Political Ignorance Rational?in Routledge Handbook of Political Epistemology (Michael Hannon and Jeroen de Ritter, eds., Routledge, 2021).
  • “Trust and Political Ignorance,” in Trust: A Philosophical Approach, (Adriano Fabris, ed., Springer, 2020).
  • Foot-Voting Nation,” in Our National Narrative: The Search For a Unifying American Story, (Joshua Claybourn, ed., University of Nebraska Press/Potomac Books, 2019).
  • “Rational Ignorance and Public Choice,” in Oxford Handbook of Public Choice, Vol. 2, (Roger Congleton, Bernard Grofman, and Stefan Voigt, eds., Oxford University Press, 2019).
  • Foot Voting and the Future of Liberty,” in Cambridge Handbook of Classical Liberal Thought, (M. Todd Henderson, ed., Cambridge University Press, 2018).
  • “Freedom and Knowledge,” in Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism, (Jason Brennan, Bas van der Vossen, and David Schmidtz, eds., Routledge, 2017).
  • The Impact of Judicial Review on American Federalism: Promoting Centralization More than State Autonomy,” in Courts in Federal Countries: Federalists or Unitarists? (Nicholas Aroney and John Kincaid, eds.,University of Toronto Press, 2017).
  • “Rational Ignorance,” in Routledge International Handbook of Ignorance Studies, (Matthias Gross and Linsey J. McGoey, eds., Routledge, 2015).
  • “Foreword,” in Philip Booth, Federal Britain: The Case for Decentralisation, (London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2015).
  • “Political Ignorance in America,” in The State of the American Mind, (Mark Bauerlein and Adam Bellow, eds., Templeton Press, 2015).
  • “Brain-Dead vs. Undead: Public Ignorance and the Political Economy of Responses to Vampires and Zombies,” in Economics of the Undead: Zombies, Vampires, and the Dismal Science (Glen Whitman and James Dow, eds., Rowman & Littlefield, 2014).
  • The Individual Mandate and the Proper Meaning of ‘Proper,’”  in The Health Care Case: The Supreme Court’s Decision and Its Implications (Nathaniel Persily, Gillian Metzger, and Trevor Morrison, eds., Oxford University Press, 2013).
  • Apathy,” in Encyclopedia of Political Thought (2013).
  • “Blight,” in Encyclopedia of Housing, 2d ed. (Sage,  2012).
  • “Nations Should Not Be Valued Merely for their Own Sake”, in Patriotism (Sylvia Engdahl, ed., Greenhaven Press, 2011).
  • “Foot Voting, Political Ignorance, and Constitutional Design,” in What Should Constitutions Do? (Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2011).
  • “Government Failure and Economic Development Takings,” in The Pursuit of Justice: Law and Economics of Legal Systems (Edward R. Lopez ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
  • “The Limits of Backlash: Assessing the Political Response to Kelo,” in Property Rights: Eminent Domain and Regulatory Takings Re-Examined (Bruce L. Benson, ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
  • “Federalism, Political Ignorance, and Voting With Your Feet,” in The Polyhedron of Libertarianism (Susumu Morimura, ed., Keisoshobo 2009) (in Japanese translation).
  • “How Affirmative Action is Like Racial Profiling,” in Racial Profiling (David Erik Nelson, ed., Greenhaven Press, 2009).
  • Public Use,” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan 2008).
  • “Yee v. Escondido,” in Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Macmillan 2008).
  • “Public Interest,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences  (Macmillan, 2d ed. 2007).
  • “Peonage Cases,” in Encyclopedia of Race and Racism (Macmillan, 2007).
  • Political Ignorance,” in Readings in American Government (Steffen W. Schmidt, et al., eds., Cengage, 5th ed. 2006).

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