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.
Book
Sean Ingham. 2019. Rule by Multiple Majorities: A New Theory of Popular Control. Cambridge University Press.
Articles and book chapters
Sean Ingham and David Wiens. Forthcoming. "Making Fair Comparisons in Political Theory." American Journal of Political Science.
Sean Ingham. Forthcoming. "Domination in Majoritarian Democracy.'' In The Oxford Handbook of Republicanism. Eds. Frank Lovett and Tim Sellars. Oxford University Press.
Sean Ingham and Niko Kolodny. 2023. "Is One More Powerful with Numbers on One's Side?'' Journal of Political Philosophy 31(4): 452-469.
Sean Ingham and David Wiens. 2022. "The Stability of the Just Society: Why Fixed Point Theorems Are Besides the Point." Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy 23(2): 312-319.
Sean Ingham and Frank Lovett. 2022. "Three errors about republicanism: a reply to Jafarov and Huseynli." Journal of Political Power 15(2): 235-242.
Sean Ingham. 2022. "Representative Democracy and Social Equality." American Political Science Review 116(2): 689-701.
Sean Ingham and Frank Lovett. 2022. "Domination and Democratic Legislation." Politics, Philosophy & Economics 21(2): 97-121.
Sean Ingham and David Wiens. 2021. "Demographic Objections to Epistocracy: A Generalization." Philosophy & Public Affairs 49(4): 323-349.
Sean Ingham and Frank Lovett. 2019. "Republican Freedom, Popular Control, and Collective Action." American Journal of Political Science 63(4): 774-787.
Sean Ingham. 2019. "Why Arrow's Theorem Matters for Political Theory Even If Preference Cycles Never Occur." Public Choice 179(1): 97-111.
Sean Ingham and Ines Levin. 2018. "Can Deliberative Minipublics Influence Public Opinion? Theory and Evidence." Political Research Quarterly 71(3): 654-667.
Sean Ingham and Ines Levin. 2018. "Effects of Deliberative Minipublics on Public Opinion: Experimental Evidence from a Survey on Social Security Reform." International Journal of Public Opinion Research 30(1): 51-78.
Sean Ingham. 2016. "Popular Rule in Schumpeter's Democracy." Political Studies 64(4): 1071-1087.
Sean Ingham. 2016. "Social Choice and Popular Control." Journal of Theoretical Politics 28(2): 331-349.
Sean Ingham. 2015. "Theorems and Models in Political Theory: An Application to Pettit on Popular Control." The Good Society 24(1): 98--117.
Sean Ingham. 2013. "Disagreement and Epistemic Arguments for Democracy." Politics, Philosophy & Economics 12(2): 135-154.
Contact
Department of Political Science
University of California San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0521
singham@ucsd.edu