快猫短视频

• JD, Columbia University, 1983
• MPP, Harvard University, 1990
• PhD, The University of Chicago, 1996

In particular, his work carefully examines the meaning and policy implications of the notions of freedom and equality that are centrally emphasized in the democratic tradition.聽 To what extent does a commitment to freedom restrict the legitimate activities of the state? To what extent does the commitment to equality obligate the state to intervene to address problems of poverty and inequality?聽 Are these values and the goals associated with them in serious tension? Kaufman鈥檚 research explores these issues in the context of projects that examine the justification of the welfare state; the nature of egalitarian justice; and the basis of democratic legitimacy. Kaufman鈥檚 primary research interest involves the theory of the welfare state. 聽Kaufman has recently been invited to present papers at UCSD鈥檚 2011 Conference on New Frontiers in Global Justice, the University of Tennessee鈥檚 Department of Philosophy (Fall 2011), and the University of Illinois鈥檚 Symposium in Honor of the 300^th Anniversary of Rousseau鈥檚 Birth (Spring 2012).聽 In his spare time, he studies and performs the classical piano literature, in particular works by Bach, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Liszt, Debussy, and Ravel.

• Distributive Justice
• Egalitarian Justice
• Democratic Theory
• German Idealism/Kant, Hegel
• Social Contract Theory
• Theories of Legitimacy
• Political Constructivism
• Legal Theory
• Modern Political Thought
• Ancient Political Thought
• Theory of the Welfare State
• Social Choice Theory
• Conceptual Foundations of Rational Choice Theory

• Nominated by Department of Political Science for 快猫短视频 Teaching Award, 2004
• Nominated by Department of Political Science for Russell Teaching Award, 2003
• SGA Award for Teaching Excellence, 2001

• Theory of the Welfare State

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Democracy, Liberty, and Judicial Review (Cambridge University Press, 2025)

Realizing Equality in Public Policy (Michigan University Press: 2024) (edited volume)

Rawls’s Egalitarianism (Cambridge University Press: 2018)

Distributive Justice and Access to Advantage: G. A. Cohen’s Egalitarianism (Cambridge University Press: 2015)聽(edited volume)

Capabilities Equality: Basic Issues and Problems (Routledge: December 2005) (edited volume).

Welfare in the Kantian State (Oxford University Press: 1999)

Journal Articles:

鈥淩easoning About Distributive Justice: Democratic Equality and Basic Social Institutions.” Philosophy and Public Issues 9:2 (2020)

鈥淭he Core of an Unqualified Case for Judicial Review.” Brooklyn Law Review 82:1 (January 2017): 1-54 (co-author: M. Runnels)

鈥淎 Satisfactory Minimum Conception of Justice: Reconsidering Rawls’s Maximin Argument.” Economics & Philosophy, Volume 29: 3 (November 2013)

鈥淧olitical Liberalism, Constructivism, and Global Justice.鈥� Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 10: 5聽(2013)

鈥淩awls and Kantian Constructivism.鈥� Kantian Review, Volume 17: 2 (July 2012).

鈥淪tability, Fit, and Consensus.鈥� Journal of Politics, Volume 71: 2聽(April 2009).

鈥淐apabilities and Freedom.鈥� Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 14: 3 (September 2006): 289-300.

鈥淩awls鈥檚 Practical Conception of Justice: Opinion, Tradition and Objectivity in Political Liberalism.鈥� Journal of Moral Philosophy, Volume 3: 1 (March 2006): 23-43.

鈥淐hoice, Responsibility and Equality.鈥� Political Studies, Volume 52 (December 2004): 819-836.

鈥淭he Myth of the Patterned Principle: Rawls, Nozick and Entitlements.鈥� Polity, Volume 36: 4 (July 2004): 559-578.

鈥淧olicy Experiments and Poverty Politics.鈥� Social Service Review, Volume 74: 4 (December 2000): 507-532.

鈥淗egel and the Ontological Critique of Liberalism.鈥� American Political Science Review, Volume 91: 4 (1997): 807-817.

鈥淐ommunity and Indigence: A Hegelian Perspective on Aid to the Poor.鈥� Journal of Political Philosophy, Volume 5: 1 (March 1997): 69-92.

鈥淩eason, Self-Legislation and Legitimacy: Conceptions of Freedom in the Political Thought of Rousseau and Kant.鈥� Review of Politics, Volume 59: 1 (Winter 1997): 25-52.

鈥淚ncompletely Theorized Agreement: A Plausible Ideal for Legal Reasoning?鈥� Georgetown Law Journal, Volume 85: 2 (December 1996): 395-415.

Book Chapters:

“Equal Access to Advantage.” In聽The Routledge Companion to Equality (Routledge 2026).

“Income Inequality and Poverty.” In the聽Oxford Companion to Rawls (Oxford University Press, 2025).

“Democratic Equality and Basic Social Institutions.” In聽Realizing Equality in Policy聽(Michigan University Press, 2024).

“Liberal Theories of Civil Disobedience.” In聽The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience聽(Cambridge University Press, 2021).

“Fair Difference of Opportunity.” In聽Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Disability (Oxford University Press, 2020) (co-author: Adam Cureton).