Jean-Paul Gagnon

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Jean-Paul Gagnon is a University of Canberra philosopher specializing in democratic theory. He joined the University of Canberra in mid-2015 as assistant professor in politics and is based in the School of Government within the Faculty of Business, Government and Law.

He co-edits the Cambridge journal Democratic Theory and serves as Chair of the Trustees for The Democracy Fund (a national charity that strives to nurture democracy's future scientists in, and with, Australian universities).

If you'd like to view his research activity and publications, please visit: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=w0GavwcAAAAJ&hl=en

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Assistant Professor, University of Canberra
  • 2013–2015
    University Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Australian Catholic University

Education

  • 2010 
    Queensland University of Technology, PhD/Political Science

Publications

  • 2014
    Democratic Theorists in Conversation: Turns in Contemporary Thought, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2013
    Evolutionary Basic Democracy, Palgrave Macmillan
  • 2012
    "The Taliban did not create the Taliban, Imperialism did", Journal of South Asian Development
  • 2012
    "Post-Colonial Public Law: Are Current Legal Establishments Democratically Illegitimate?", African Journal of Legal Studies
  • 2011
    "Surface and Sub-Surface Land Ownership: Realpolitik for 4th World Empowerment", Journal of Australian Indigenous Issues
  • 2011
    "Huron Socialism: A New Political System", AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
  • 2011
    "A Potential Demarcation between ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Democratic Theory?", Social Alternatives
  • 2011
    "Establishing Indigeneity in African Pluralities using PRO169 Parameters", Brill Journal of African and Asian Studies
  • 2011
    "China’s Naval Policy off the Coast of Somalia", Journal of Global Analysis
  • 2010
    "Democratic Theory and Theoretical Physics", Taiwan Journal of Democracy

Research Areas

  • Political Science (1606)
  • Comparative Government And Politics (160603)
  • Public Policy (160510)
  • Public Administration (160509)
  • Political Theory And Political Philosophy (160609)
  • Social Theory (160806)

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