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  • “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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2006-present      Contributor, Volokh Conspiracy law and politics blog. Affiliated with Reason magazine; affiliated with the Washington Post, 2014-17.

2011-present        Contributing Editor for Constitutional Law, JOTWELL website.

2004-present      Occasional guest-blogging at various law and politics sites, including the American      Constitution Society blog, Balkinization, and others.

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