Simone Chambers

Professor

Area Group(s)
Political Theory

Office Location
Phone Number
E-mail Address
LA 206
416-946-3635
schamber@chass.utoronto.ca

Background

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).

Education

B.A., McGill University
M.A., Columbia University
Ph.D., Columbia University

Research Interests

Deliberative Democracy
Democracy
Discourse
Theories of Justice
Political Participation
Critical Theory
Contemporary Liberalism and Ethics
Canadian Constitutional Theory and History

Selected Publications

Books
Simone Chambers and Will Kymlicka, ed. (2002) Alternative Conceptions of Civil Society. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Simone Chambers and Anne Costain, ed. (2000) Deliberation, Democracy and the Media. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Simone Chambers (1996) Reasonable Democracy: Jürgen Habermas and the Politics of Discourse. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press.

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