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The Encyclopedia of Political Thought
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Editor-in-Chief Michael Gibbons is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida. He received his doctorate degree from the University of Massachusetts in 1983 with foci on political theory and political economy. He has taught at Siena College and Boston University, as well as at Masaryk University in the Czech Republic as part of the Fulbright Program. He is the author of various articles, chapters, and reviews on contemporary political theory and American political thought. He is co-editor (with Wilson Carey McWilliams) of The Federalists, the Antifederalists and the American Political Tradition (1992) and editor of Interpreting Politics (1987).

Associate Editor Diana Coole is professor of political and social theory at Birkbeck, University of London. Her books include Negativity and Politics: Dionysus and Dialectics from Kant to Poststructuralism;Merleau-Ponty and Modern Politics after Anti-Humanism; and The New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, edited with Samantha Frost. Her research interests include phenomenology, genealogy, and critical theory, especially as these are applied to gender, political economy, demography, and the body. She is currently completing a study on the population question funded by a three year Leverhulme Fellowship.

Associate Editor Elisabeth Ellis is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago. She is the author of Kant's Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (2005) and Provisional Politics: Kantian Arguments in Policy Context (2008); she has also edited a volume of essays, Kant's Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications (2012). Ellis's current book project, Extinction and Democracy, asks whether democratic practices and species conservation are compatible. Other recent projects include a reception history of Hobbes's political thought and an assessment of the challenges environmental policy poses for democratic theory. Her work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst, and the Ray A. Rothrock '77 Fellowship. She is currently serving as co-president of the Association for Political Theory.

Associate Editor Kennan Ferguson teaches political theory at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He is author of All in the Family: On Community and Incommensurabilty, William James: Politics in the Pluriverse, and The Politics of Judgment. He also chairs the Foundations of Political Theory section of the American Political Science Association and co-edits, with Morton Schoolman, the series Modernity and Political Thought.

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“If you have it, well worth spending the money.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 September 2015) “Highly recommended. Undergraduate students through researchers/faculty; general readers.”  (Choice, 1 July 2015)

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