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John P. McCormick (political scientist)

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John P. McCormick
Born1966
EducationUniversity of Chicago (MA, PhD), Queens College, CUNY (BA)
AwardsSpitz Prize
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
Main interests
political philosophy

John P. McCormick (born 1966) is an American political scientist and Karl J. Weintraub Professor at the University of Chicago. He is known for his works on political theory.[1][2][3] McCormick is a winner of the 2013 Elaine and David Spitz Prize for his book Machiavellian Democracy.

Books

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  • The People’s Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming 2025).
  • Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements and the Virtue of Populist Politics (Princeton University Press, 2018) 271 + xvi.
  • Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2011) 264 + xiv.
  • Weber, Habermas, and Transformations of the European State: Constitutional, Social and Supranational Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2007) 320 + xiii.
  • Carl Schmitt’s Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge University Press, 1997) 352 + xii.

References

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  1. ^ White, Stuart (1 October 2017). "Book Review: Machiavellian Democracy, by John P. McCormick". Political Theory. 45 (5): 739–742. doi:10.1177/0090591716640461. ISSN 0090-5917.
  2. ^ Coby, John (1 May 2019). "John P. McCormick, Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics". Interpretation.
  3. ^ Vergara, Camila (June 2020). "John P. McCormick, Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and the Virtue of Populist Politics. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2018)Gabriele Pedullà, Machiavelli in Tumult: The Discourses on Livy and the Origins of Political Conflictualism. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2018)". Constellations. 27 (2): 316–320. doi:10.1111/1467-8675.12479.
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