Arthur Ghins
@arthurghins.bsky.social
Historian of political thought @ulbruxelles.bsky.social. "The People's Two Powers" out with CUP.
« Gouvernement représentatif versus démocratie représentative », @arthurghins.bsky.social (@ulbruxelles.bsky.social). Une autre lecture des origines du gouvernement représentatif @raisonspolitiques.bsky.social @cairninfo.bsky.social https://tinyurl.com/yjm8rdef
Parution: nouveau numéro de Raisons politiques 3 articles varia (dont @arthurghins.bsky.social) + nouvelle rubrique Symposium autour du livre d’Amandine Catala, The dynamics of epistemic injustice: Situating epistemic power and agency (OUP 2025) Disponible sur Cairn: shs.cairn.info/revue-raison...
From our FirstView: Scrutiny and Recall: Rousseau on Controlling the Executive by @arthurghins.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Coming soon! Duncan Bell & Sarah Cole (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of H. G. Wells The Table of Contents can be seen here: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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💣 It is not true that Rousseau confined elite accountability to elections! 🎯 Great work by @arthurghins.bsky.social in combining accountability and deliberation to highlight one of the lesser-known and underappreciated mechanisms of direct democracy: the recall referendum. A must-read.
Arthur Ghins@arthurghins.bsky.social · 5mo agoA new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social , in which I revisit Rousseau to propose a model of executive accountability combining a national jury—a citizens’ assembly chosen by lot, tasked with examining executive actions—with the possibility of a recall referendum.
A new article in @apsrjournal.bsky.social , in which I revisit Rousseau to propose a model of executive accountability combining a national jury—a citizens’ assembly chosen by lot, tasked with examining executive actions—with the possibility of a recall referendum.
Scrutiny and Recall: Rousseau on Controlling the Executive | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
Scrutiny and Recall: Rousseau on Controlling the Executive
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The People's Two Powers is now available digitally! www.cambridge.org/core/books/p...
The People's Two Powers
Cambridge Core - European Studies - The People's Two Powers
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That's @arthurghins.bsky.social, The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy, just out from @universitypress.cambridge.org. It's very, very good.
ESHPT-Brill First-Book Manuscript Prize in the History of Political Thought, deadline: 31 Dec. The winner receives €500 at our conference in Naples in Oct 26 & a chance to publish their book in the Brill Series History of European Political & Constitutional Thought europoliticalthought.wordpress.com
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In a new article in @poppublicsphere.bsky.social I propose an institution reform to make representative government less oligarchic: having elected politicians held accountable by randomly selected "Constituency Juries"
Perspectives on Politics@poppublicsphere.bsky.social · last yr.NOW OUT ON FIRSTVIEW!! Constituency Juries: #Holding #Elected #Representatives #Accountable through #Sortition By @brunoleipold.com doi.org/10.1017/S153...
Glad to share my latest piece, published in Political Theory, "'The Reading Nation'": Sieyès's Theory of Public Opinion." journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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This was such a great session! Thanks again to @raioxford.bsky.sociaitfor hosting us 🙏🏻Read all about it! 📰 👇🏻
Oxford Centre for Intellectual History@oxfordcih.bsky.social · last yr.📢 New Blog Reflections on a recent roundtable by Claire Rydell Arcenas, Emily Jones (@jonesemily.bsky.social), and Glory Liu, on 'Liberalism, Conservatism, and Reception History' intellectualhistory.web.ox.ac.uk/article/roun...
The program for the #PREDEF workshop on Forgotten Institutions is now online! Keynote by Anthoula Malkopoulou & contributions by @arthurghins.bsky.social @drsophiah.bsky.social @simonintheory.bsky.social a.o. Organised by @saragebh.bsky.social Details: predef.univie.ac.at/wsforgotteni...
CALL FOR PAPERS: Cambridge Graduate Conference in Political Thought and Intellectual History. Deadline: 14 March 2025. See below for more details: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/ptih-graduat...
Glad to share my latest piece, "The First Theorists of Liberal Democracy," onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
The First Theorists of Liberal Democracy
Who were the first theorists of liberal democracy? Since the mid-20th century, scholars have attributed this title to figures like Locke, Montesquieu, Kant, Madison, Constant, Tocqueville, Mill, and ...
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW! For our second episode on the people and ideas behind the French Revolution David talks to historian and biographer Ruth Scurr about the man who came to embody the revolution in all its radicalism and all its terror: Maximilien Robespierre. Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
🚨 Open Position at the University of Vienna 🚨 University Assistant (Postdoc) 📅 Start: June 1, 2025 ⏳ Duration: 6 years (fixed-term) 💼 Focus: Political representation, party competition, institutions, & behavior 📌 Deadline: Jan 24, 2025 Join us! 🇦🇹 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
Very excited about the lineup for the seminar "Acting Democratically: Historical & Contemporary Perspectives on the Politics of Exclusion", organised in cooperation with Malin Grahn-Wilder & project Origins of Racializing Thought @koneensaatio.fi @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social
Petite satisfaction à utiliser bluesky ici, car je peux directement vous renvoyer à l'excellente review de @arthurghins.bsky.social (qui pointe très bien tous les soucis méthodologique du livre) sans que la visibilité du thread soit affectée ! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Liberalism reinvents itself
Published in Intellectual History Review (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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I have created a "starter pack" for intellectual history, broadly construed, composed of historians, philosophers, political theorists, literary scholars, & more! Sorry for those I missed & cannot add (limit 150), but do reply, like, & share this post so that people can find you! go.bsky.app/77uSk3m
📣JOB | 6-year fixed-term The Clive Holmes Fellowship in History at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford | US History Post-1776 with core interests in political, religious, or intellectual history | application deadline: March 14 ▶️ lmh.pinpointhq.com/en/postings/...
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This is the book that has come out of a terrific set of Carlyle Lectures in 2019, and it sounds as if Richard Whatmore has not been pulling his punches.
The End of Enlightenment by Richard Whatmore review – a warning from 18th-century Britain
In a study with chilling modern resonance, the history don contends that the age of reason was betrayed by the greed, corruption and barbarism of Britain’s ruling elite
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Call for Papers! "On the Joint Practice of Conceptual History and the Study of Political Thought", a Concepta Seminar. Online, 8-9 January 2024. Deadline for proposals: 30 November. See the call / alt-text for more details!
