David Peritz

BA, Occidental College. DPhil, Oxford University. Special interests in democracy in conditions of cultural diversity, social complexity and political dispersal, critical social theory, social contract theory, radical democratic thought, and the idea of dispersed but integrated public spheres that create the social and institutional space for broad-based, direct participation in democratic deliberation and decision-making; recipient of a Marshal Scholarship; taught at Harvard University, Deep Springs College, and Dartmouth College; visiting scholar at Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and the London School of Economics. SLC, 2000–