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  1. In Praise of Friction  <div> Mutual Interference, Parity, and the Benefits of Competition </div>

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  2. Kevin Elliott: Democracy for Busy People. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2023. pp. vii, 243.)

    Article • The Review of Politics, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  3. What Kind of Popular Participation Does Bioethics Need? Clarifying the Ends of Public Engagement through Randomly Selected Mini-Publics

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, November 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  4. Preaching to the Choir? Rhetoric and Identity in a Polarized Age

    Article • The Journal of Politics, November 2021, University of Chicago Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  5. Intra‐party Democracy: A Functionalist Account☆

    Article • Journal of Political Philosophy, October 2021, Wiley

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  6. Do we need an anti-oligarchic constitution?

    Article • European Journal of Political Theory, March 2021, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  7. FIGHTING POWER WITH POWER: THE ADMINISTRATIVE STATE AS A WEAPON AGAINST CONCENTRATED PRIVATE POWER

    Article • Social Philosophy and Policy, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  8. Book Review: Democratic Equality, by James Lindley Wilson

    Article • Political Theory, October 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  9. Jeff Jackson: Equality beyond Debate: John Dewey's Pragmatic Idea of Democracy. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. x, 303.)

    Article • The Review of Politics, December 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  10. Democracy and Truth: A Short History. By Sophia Rosenfeld. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 224p. $22.50 cloth. - Political Self-Deception. By Anna Elisabetta Galeotti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 270p. $105.00 cloth.

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, November 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  11. An Adversarial Ethics for Campaigns and Elections

    Article • Perspectives on Politics, September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  12. Why democracy is valuable even if orindary voters are tribal and ignorant of politics

    Article • American Political Science Review, September 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  13. Beyond the search for the subject: An anti-essentialist ontology for liberal democracy

    Article • European Journal of Political Theory, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  14. What Makes a Political Theory Political? A Comment on Waldron

    Article • Political Studies Review, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  15. When will a Darwinian approach be useful for the study of society?

    Article • Politics Philosophy & Economics, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  16. Between Critical and Normative Theory

    Article • Political Research Quarterly, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg

  17. Can deliberation neutralise power?

    Article • European Journal of Political Theory, October 2015, SAGE Publications

    Dr Samuel Ely Bagg