Samuel Bagg is Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow in Politics at Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and as of August 2022 will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina. Prior to Oxford, he received his PhD in Political Science from Duke University, and spent two years as a postdoctoral fellow with the Research Group on Constitutional Studies at McGill University. His work aims to reimagine democratic ideals and practices in light of realistic assumptions about the dynamics of social inequality and political power, and has been published in journals including the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. His first book, The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

 www.samuelbagg.com

samuel.bagg@gmail.com