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John T. Scott
Professor of Political Science
Director, Graduate Studies


John T. Scott

Mailing address:
Department of Political Science
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave
Davis CA 95616

Office: 261 SocSci
Phone: (530) 752 0972
e-mail: jtscott@ucdavis.edu

EDUCATION

B.A. cum laude with High Honors in Government, Dartmouth College, 1985
M.A., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1988
PhD., Political Science, University of Chicago, 1992

CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS:

So Great a Noise: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, David Hume, and the End of Enlightenment. Yale University Press; under contract (with Robert Zaretsky)

Rousseau, Voltaire, and Fanaticism (editor, with Ourida Mostefai)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Critical Assessments (ed.) 4 vols. Routledge, 2006

"What's Fair in a Flood? Distributive Justice across Allocation Contexts and Different Kinds of Goods" (with Brian H. Bornstein)

"Courting the Public: An Experimental Study of Institutional Specific Support for Supreme Court Decisions" (with James F. Spriggs II and James R. Zink)

"The Cold War on Ice: Friends, Rivals, and Enemies in Olympic Figure Skating Judging," Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming (with Brian R. Sala and James F. Spriggs II)

"Philosophy Leads to Sorrow: An Evening at the Theater with Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume," Southwest Review 91 (Winter 2006): 36-55 (with Robert Zaretsky)

"The Politic Argument of Rousseau's Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts," American Journal of Political Science 49 (October 2005): 819-29 (with Sally H. Campbell)

"Rousseau's Anti-Agenda-Setting Agenda and Contemporary Democratic Theory," American Political Science Review 99 (February 2005): 137-44

Curriculum Vitae