Mark Button
Assistant Professor, Political Science Department
Affiliated Faculty, Honors College
Honors College
1975 DeTrobriand
Building 619
Salt Lake City, Ut 84113
Office Phone: (801) 585-7987
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>> Curriculum Vitae
Degrees:
2001 PhD Rutgers University
Research Statement
My overall research agenda is animated by an interest in the ethical and political conditions of modern democratic citizenship. The question that I am asking in nearly all of my work is: What are the necessary preconditions for cultivating and sustaining a vibrant democratic political society/culture? What moral, political, and institutional features must be present in order to balance the normative commitment to democracy with the fact of incommensurable value pluralism, and to balance the claims of autonomy and individual liberty with the claims of civic obligation and virtue? In general, how should late-modern political societies navigate the complex matrix of multidimensional pluralism, liberalism, and democracy?
Research Keywords, Regions of Interest and Languages:
Keywords:
American Political Thought; Citizenship; Democracy; Ethics (15); Political Theory (3); Religion and American Politics
Languages:
German (111)
Research Projects
Pride and Power in a Democratic Society [details]
Courses I Teach
HONOR 2212 American Institutions