Samuel Bagg

University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science

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817 Henderson Street

Columbia, SC 29208

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Intra-Party Democracy: A Functionalist Account

Journal of Political Philosophy, 2021
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 23 Feb 2022
Samuel Bagg and Udit Bhatia
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science and University of Oxford
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political parties, democratic theory, countervailing power, organizing, deliberation

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The Power of the Multitude: Answering Epistemic Challenges to Democracy

American Political Science Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 26 Sep 2018
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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Epistemic Democracy, Epistocracy, Meritocracy, Voter Ignorance, Political Realism

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Fighting Power with Power: The Administrative State as a Weapon against Concentrated Private Power

Social Philosophy and Policy 2021
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 23 Feb 2022
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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bureaucracy, state capture, democracy, concentrated power, adversarialism

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Between Critical and Normative Theory: Predictive Political Theory as a Deweyan Realism

Political Research Quarterly, online March 7, 2016; in print, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 12 Mar 2016
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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realism, pragmatism, Dewey, method, judgment

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What Makes a Political Theory Political? A Comment on Waldron

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 16 Aug 2017
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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realism, legitimacy, justice, Jeremy Waldron

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When Will a Darwinian Approach Be Useful for the Study of Society?

Politics, Philosophy, and Economics, 2017, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 15 Jan 2017
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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cultural evolution, evolutionary economics, generalized Darwinism, adaptationism, natural selection

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Realism Against Legitimacy: For a Radical, Action-Oriented Political Realism

Social Theory and Practice, 2021
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 28 Feb 2022
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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realism, legitimacy, ideal and nonideal theory, pragmatism, proceduralism, moderation

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Whose Coordination? Which Democracy? On Antitrust as a Democratic Demand

Bagg, S. (2023). Whose Coordination? Which Democracy? On Antitrust as a Democratic Demand. Politics & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292231183805
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 17 Jul 2023
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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antitrust, antimonopoly, democratic theory, decision-making, capture, liberalism, socialism

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Can Deliberation Neutralize Power?

European Journal of Political Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 04 Nov 2015
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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Deliberative Democracy, Motivated Reasoning, Power, Disagreement

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Beyond the Search for the Subject: An Anti-Essentialist Ontology for Liberal Democracy

European Journal of Political Theory, DOI/10.1177/1474885118763881, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 01 Aug 2018
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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agency, evolutionary biology, Foucault, freedom, poststructuralism, power, subjectivity

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Sortition as Anti-Corruption: Popular Oversight Against Elite Capture

American Journal of Political Science, 2022
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jul 2023
Samuel Bagg
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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Democratic Theory, Representation, Corruption, Elite Capture, Oversight, Sortition, Lotteries, Citizen Juries]

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

Journal of Politics 2022
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 23 Feb 2022
Rob Goodman and Samuel Bagg
Ryerson University and University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science
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deliberation, homiletics, identity, preaching, rhetoric

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An Adversarial Ethics of Campaigns and Elections

Perspectives on Politics 17(4)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 23 Feb 2022
Samuel Bagg and Isak Tranvik
University of South Carolina - Department of Political Science and Independent
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elections, campaigns, adversarial ethics, democratic theory, competition, pluralism