Ben started following the work of Tamsin Lorraine, Swarthmore College, Philosophy.
Ben started following the work of Sonya Sachdeva, Northwestern University, Psychology.
Ben started following the work of Kate Manne, Harvard University, Harvard Society of Fellows.
Faculty Member, Political Science
Associate Professor
About
I did my undergraduate degree at Princeton University (Politics Department) and my MA and PhD at Harvard University (Government Department). Currently I teach at Swarthmore College and direct the school's "Engaging Democracy Project." I was also named one of 26 "Periclean Faculty Leaders" nationwide by the Project Pericles consortium (based in New York City).
I study political theory, with a special interest in the overlap and interplay between normative political theory and empirical political (and social) science. My book "Attention Deficit Democracy: the paradox of civic engagement" was published by Princeton University Press.
http://www.amazon.com/Attention-Deficit-Democracy-Paradox-Engagement/d
It recently won the 2012 NASSP Book Award, presented by the North American Society for Social Philosophy for the best 2011 book in social philosophy.
http://www.pitt.edu/~nassp/bookaward.htm
Previous winners include Amartya Sen, G.A. Cohen, Stephen Nathanson, Will Kymlicka and Seyla Benhabib.
My book was also named one of the Top 10 Nonfiction Books of 2011 by Zocalo Public Square, a project of the Center for Social Cohesion.
http://zocalopublicsquare.org/thepublicsquare/2011/12/04/just-buy-thes
"Attention Deficit Democracy: the paradox of civic engagement" parses "civic engagement" into its constituent parts-- political, social, and moral-- and focuses primarily on the role of (and prospects for) political engagement in American democracy.
My current book project investigates moral engagement and disengagement and their role in democratic polities. It bridges the fields of political theory/philosophy, political science, social psychology and cognitive neuroscience.
