Loren Reinoso
Bio:
I am a political theorist in Yale’s Department of Political Science. More specifically, I study the theoretical and practical foundations of politics. My work combines insights from analytic philosophy of action, the history of political thought, and empirical political science to resolve the tension between popular and governmental rule.
My current book project (and dissertation) is Together We Rule: Representative Authority and Political Agency. Modern governments attempt to legitimate themselves by claiming to act in citizens’ name. Citizens, for their part, attempt to justify their resistance by denying that the government possesses a distinctly representative authority. My book addresses this tension directly by theorizing conditions under which we can attribute the government’s conduct to the people, and thereby say that the people are ruling themselves through (and not merely being ruled by) their government.
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Education:
- MA, Yale University, Political Science
- MPhil, Yale University, Political Science
- MA, University of Chicago, Program in the Social Sciences (specialization in political theory)
- AB, Princeton University, Department of Politics (Honors); Certificate in Values and Public Life
Interests:
- Political Theory (primary)
- American Politics; Comparative Politics (secondary)