I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at UC San Diego and Research Affiliate at the Future of Democracy Initiative. I work on questions about popular control, majority rule, domination, franchise restrictions, and other topics in democratic theory. You can download my c.v. here.
Rule by Multiple Majorities: A New Theory of Popular Control. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
"Survey Article: Unfounded Pessimism about Electoral Accountability" (with Dimitri Landa and Ryan Pevnick). Political Philosophy. Forthcoming.
"Institutional Forbearance as a Mechanism of Democratic Stability." American Political Science Review. Forthcoming.
"Moderate Republicanism and the Equivalent Judgments Thesis." European Journal of Political Theory. Forthcoming.
"Making Fair Comparisons in Political Theory" (with David Wiens). American Journal of Political Science. 2024.
"Domination in Majoritarian Democracy.'' In The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism. Eds. Frank Lovett and Tim Sellars. Oxford University Press, 2024.
"Is One More Powerful with Numbers on One's Side?'' (with Niko Kolodny) Journal of Political Philosophy 31(4) (2023): 452-469.
"The Stability of the Just Society: Why Fixed Point Theorems Are Besides the Point" (with David Wiens). Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 23(2) (2022): 312-319.
"Three errors about republicanism: a reply to Jafarov and Huseynli" (with Frank Lovett) Journal of Political Power 15(2) (2022): 235-242.
Sean Ingham. 2022. "Representative Democracy and Social Equality." American Political Science Review 116(2): 689-701.
"Domination and Democratic Legislation" (with Frank Lovett). Politics, Philosophy & Economics 21(2) (2022): 97-121.
"Demographic Objections to Epistocracy: A Generalization" (with David Wiens). Philosophy & Public Affairs 49(4) (2021): 323-349.
"Republican Freedom, Popular Control, and Collective Action" (with Frank Lovett). American Journal of Political Science 63(4) (2019): 774-787.
"Why Arrow's Theorem Matters for Political Theory Even If Preference Cycles Never Occur." Public Choice 179(1) (2019): 97-111.
"Can Deliberative Minipublics Influence Public Opinion? Theory and Evidence" (with Ines Levin). Political Research Quarterly 71(3) (2018): 654-667.
"Effects of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from a Survey on Social Security Reform" (with Ines Levin). International Journal of Public Opinion Research 30(1) (2018): 51-78.
"Popular Rule in Schumpeter's Democracy." Political Studies 64(4) (2016): 1071-1087.
"Social Choice and Popular Control." Journal of Theoretical Politics 28(2) (2016): 331-349.
"Theorems and Models in Political Theory: An Application to Pettit on Popular Control." The Good Society 24(1) (2015): 98--117.
"Disagreement and Epistemic Arguments for Democracy." Politics, Philosophy & Economics 12(2) (2013): 135-154.
Department of Political Science
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521
singham@ucsd.edu