Russell Muirhead

Robert Clements Associate Professor of Democracy and Politics
Silsby 204
Russell.Muirhead@Dartmouth.edu

A.B., Government, Harvard University
B.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, Balliol College, Oxford
Ph.D., Harvard University

Books:

• A Defense of Party Spirit (in progress)
• Just Work (Harvard University Press, 2004)

Papers and Reviews:

• "A Defense of Party Spirit," Perspectives on Politics, December 2006.
• "Respectable Partisanship," in Mary Ann McGrail and Sharon R. Krause, eds., The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey C. Mansfield (Lexington Books, 2008).
• "Partisan Loyalties," forthcoming in NOMOS volume on "Loyalty," edited by Sanford Levinson.
• "Why Deliberative Democracy Needs Parties and Partisans," forthcoming in Critical Review.

Recent Conference Presentations:

• "Primary Elections and Democratic Theory," with Bryan Garsten, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2009.
• "Work and Moral Responsibility," 7th Annual Texas A & M Political Theory Conference, March 2008.
• "The Ethics of Counterinsurgency," at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, February 2008.
• "Post-modernism and the Problem of Work," Villanova Conference on Human Work, September 2006.

Teaches:

• American Political Thought (60)
• Theoretical Foundations of Modern Politics (60)
• Left and Right: Party Spirit and Ideology in American Politics (81.05)