Stuart White

PhD Princeton

Academic Staff Academic Office Holders

Associate Professor of Politics, DPIR

Tutorial Fellow in Politics, Jesus College

AFFILIATION

Political Theory Network

College

Jesus College

Students

stuart.white@jesus.ox.ac.uk

phone

+44 (0)1865 279747

Research

Normative political theory, public policy and the history of political thought. I am particularly interested in egalitarianism and its application in policy, and in traditions of political and institutional thinking that are simultaneously anti-capitalist and opposed to authoritarian forms of socialism.

My research interests include:

Normative Political Economy, Democratic Theory, Constitutional Theory and Studies (UK and Comparative), Political Theory and/of Institutions, Varieties of Republicanism, Political Theory and/of Subcultures, Anarchism.

Media

Universal basic income; inheritance tax and universal capital grants; democratic renewal and constitutional reform.

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching: Prelims: Theorizing Democracy, Theory of Politics, History of Political Thought: Plato to Rousseau, History of Political Thought: Bentham to Weber, Marx and Marxism.

Graduate teaching: Normative Political Economy.

Publications

Journal Articles

2024

Satz, D. and White, S. (2024) “What is wrong with inequality?”, Oxford Open Economics, 3(Supplement_1), pp. i4 - i17.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/ooec/odad040

2022

White, S. (2022) “The Referendum in the UK’s Constitution: From Parliamentary to Popular Sovereignty?”, Parliamentary Affairs, 75(2), pp. 263–280.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsaa062

2019

O’Neill, M. and White, S. (2019) “James Meade, public ownership, and the idea of a citizens’ trust”, International Journal of Public Policy, 15(1-2), pp. 21–37.

2017

White, S. (2017) “Parliaments, constitutional conventions, and popular sovereignty”, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 19(2), pp. 320–335.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1369148117700657

White, S. (2017) “Republicanism and Property-Owning Democracy: How are they connected?”, ocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, XXXVII(2).

2016

Tischer, D. et al. (2016) “An evaluative framework for mutual and employee-owned businesses”, Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 7(3), pp. 342–368.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1080/19420676.2016.1190396

2015

White, S. (2015) “Basic Capital in the Egalitarian Toolkit?”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 32(4), pp. 417–431.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/japp.12129

2012

White, S. (2012) “Religious exemptions: An egalitarian demand?”, Law and Ethics of Human Rights, 6(1), pp. 97–118.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1515/1938-2545.1069

Books

2020

Leipold, B., Nabulsi, K. and White, S. (2020) Radical Republicanism Recovering the Tradition’s Popular Heritage. Edited by K. NABULSI, S. WHITE, and B. Leipold. Oxford University Press, USA.

Chapters

2019

WHITE, S. (2019) “Rousseau and the Meaning of Popular Sovereignty”, in Ideas That Matter Democracy, Justice, Rights. Oxford University Press, USA.

2018

WHITE, S. (2018) “Moral Objections to Inheritance Tax”, in Taxation Philosophical Perspectives. Oxford University Press.

2017

White, S. (2017) “Should a minimum income be unconditional?”, in S. Civatarese and S. Halliday (eds.) Social Rights in Europe in an Age of Austerity. Routledge, pp. 181–196.

White, S. (2017) “Liberal philosophies of ownership”, in J. Michie, J. Blasi, and C. Borzaga (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Mutual, Co-Operative, and Co-Owned Business. Oxford University Press, pp. 27–39.

Available at https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199684977.013.3

2016

White, S. (2016) “The left after social democracy: towards state-society partnerships”, in P. Ackers and A. Reid (eds.) Reid, A ed., Ackers, P ed. (2016). Other Worlds of Labour. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 303–327.