Office Location
LA 206
Phone Number
416-946-3635
Fax Number
416-978-5566
Email Address
Area Group(s)
- Political Theory
Education
- MESc, McGill University
- M.A., Columbia University
- Ph.D., Columbia University
Simone Chambers
Professor
Biography
Research interests: Deliberative democracy; critical theory; contemporary liberalism and ethics; theories of justice, democracy, discourse, and political participation, Canadian constitutional theory and history; constitutionalism and democracy. Publications include: Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse (Cornell University Press, 1996); Deliberation, Democracy and the Media, ed. with Anne Costain (Rowman and Littlefield, 2000); Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society, ed. with Will Kymlicka (Princeton, 2001).
Research Interests
- Deliberative Democracy
- Democracy
- Discourse
- Theories of Justice
- Political Participation
- Critical Theory
- Contemporary Liberalism and Ethics
- Canadian Constitutional Theory and History
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