Dr. Brian Danoff
Department Profile
Teaching Interests:
- Political Theory (ancient to contemporary)
- American Political Thought
- Civil Society
Research Interests:
- Modern Political Theory
- American Political Thought
- Democratic Theory
Educating Democracy: Alexis de Tocqueville and Leadership in America. SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2010.
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship (ed. with L. Joseph Hebert). Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2011.
"A School or a Stage? Tocqueville and Arendt on Politics and Education." Perspectives on Political Science 41.3 (July-September 2012): 117-24.
"Political Thought in the Early Republic: The Federalist-Antifederalist Debate." In A History of the U.S. Political System: Ideas, Interests, and Institutions. Daniel Tichenor and Richard Harris (eds.). ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA (2009).
"Asking of Freedom Something Other than Itself: Tocqueville, Putnam and the Vocation of the Democratic Moralist." Politics and Policy 35.2 (June 2007): 165-90.
"Lincoln and Tocqueville on Democratic Leadership and Self-Interest Properly Understood." The Review of Politics 67.4 (Fall 2005): 687-719.
"Leo Strauss, George W. Bush, and the Problem of 'Regime Change.'" Social Policy 34.2-3 (Winter/Spring 2004): 35-40.
"Arendt, Kafka, and the Nature of Totalitarianism." Perspectives on Political Science 29.4 (Fall 2000): 211-218.
"Lincoln, Machiavelli, and American Political Thought." Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.2 (June 2000): 290-311.
Dr. Danoff's research is in the areas of American political thought and modern political theory.
Contact Info
Dr. Patrick Haney
Interim Chair
218 Harrison Hall
Oxford, OH 45056
E: political@miamioh.edu
P: (513) 529-2000
F: (513) 529-1709