APSA is happy to announce that Shmuel Nili, Associate Professor at Northwestern University, is joining the Perspectives on Politics editorial team as Associate Editor in Political Theory.
Shmuel Nili is an Associate Professor of political science at Northwestern University.
His research in political philosophy ranges across meta-ethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics. The applied aspects of his work focus on links between domestic and global injustice, with special attention to moral issues surrounding corporate agency, public property and corruption, and abuse of power. These themes are central to Nili’s first three books: The People’s Duty (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Integrity, Personal and Political (Oxford University Press, 2020), and Philosophizing the Indefensible (Oxford University Press, 2023). The same themes dominate an ongoing, fourth book project focused on rethinking fundamental assumptions in political philosophy in the face of pervasive political violence. And these themes also run through most of his journal articles, including essays in Ethics, The American Political Science Review, The American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Social Philosophy and Policy, and Journal of Political Philosophy, among others.
Nili’s inquiries into these three themes started with a focus on corruption issues. In particular, he was interested in global corruption related to the “resource curse” and in philosophical questions that this “curse” raises about public property and democracy, as well as about the practical tasks of political philosophy. More recently, he has sought to connect his global theory arguments to domestic politics, paying special attention to morally fraught dynamics in various developing countries, in the United States, and in his native Israel.
Find out more about Nili’s work here: https://sites.northwestern.edu/nili/home/
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