Democratic Theory — Thad Williamson

Thad Williamson is a professor, writer and civic activist teaching at the University of Richmond. His work focuses on the connection between theories of democracy and social justice and the practice of public policy and public administration.

Democratic Theory

Williamson, Thad. "Political Traditions: Conservatism, Liberalism, and Republicanism." In Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook, edited by Richard A. Couto, 88-96. Los Angeles: SAGE Reference, 2010.

Williamson, Thad. "Political Traditions: Left Political Movements and the Politics of Social Justice." In Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook, edited by Richard A. Couto, 97-104. Los Angeles: SAGE Reference, 2010.

Williamson, Thad. "Justice, the Public Sector, and Cities: Re-legitimating the Activist State." In Justice and the Contemporary American Metropolis, edited by Clarissa Hayward and Todd Swanstrom, 177-97. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Williamson, Thad. "Changing the People, Not Simply the President: The Limitations and Possibilities of the Obama Presidency, in Tocquevillian Perspective." Alexis De Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship. Edited by Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011. 155-178.

Williamson, Thad. “The good society and the good soul: Plato's Republic on leadership.” The Leadership Quarterly 19 (2008) 397–408.

Williamson, Thad. "Everybody 's Got to Wonder What's the Matter With This Cruel World Today": Social Consciousness and Political Commentary In "Love and Theft" and Modern Times.” In Tearing the World Apart: Bob Dylan and the Twenty-First Century, edited by Nina Goss and Eric R. Hoffman, 158-175. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 2017.