Deborah A. Boucoyannis
Assistant Professor
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA
dab5fw[@]virginia.edu
Webpage, Department of Politics
Assistant Professor
Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA
dab5fw[@]virginia.edu
Webpage, Department of Politics
Deborah Boucoyannis is Assistant Professor of Politics, specializing in comparative politics, especially the theoretical and historical origins of liberalism and the state. She is currently working on a book manuscript that takes a historical approach to a contemporary question: How do liberal regimes emerge and what are the preconditions to state building? She focuses on the constitutive role of courts and systems of law, as opposed to geopolitical or economic explanations. The manuscript is based on a dissertation that received the APSA Ernst Haas Best Dissertation Award in European Politics and the Seymour Martin Lipset Best Dissertation Award from the Society for Comparative Research.
Her work on the political theory/economy of early liberalism includes an article on Adam Smith, published in Perspectives on Politics. The paper posits that Smith's system does not predict the inequalities that are widely believed to flow inevitably from the market economy. A summary, articulating its implications for contemporary positions on economic inequality, appears on the site of the London School of Economics British Politics and Policy blog and another one, explaining its affinity with the notion of "pre-distribution," on the Policy Network, a leading progressive thinktank in the UK. She also works in international relations, especially on the interconnections with political theory and comparative politics. Her paper on liberalism and the balance of power received the divisional nomination for the Franklin L. Burdette Award by APSA and appeared in Perspectives on Politics. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago. Prior to coming to Virginia, she was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University and a Lecturer in the Committee on Social Studies at Harvard, where she received the Barrington Moore Advising Award and multiple teaching awards. |
Recent Posts
Policy Network:
Correcting market inequality |