Books (and pamphlet)
How To Think About Religious Schools: Principles and Policies (with Matthew Clayton, Andrew Mason and Ruth Wareham), Oxford University Press, 2024.
Political Philosophy: A Beginners’ Guide for Students and Politicians Polity, 2001, 2006, 2013, 4th edition 2019.
[This is translated into Chinese, Czech, Greek, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Polish, Serbian and Spanish]
How To Regulate Faith Schools (with Matthew Clayton, Andrew Mason and Ruth Wareham) Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain/Wiley, 2018.
Educational Goods: Values, Evidence, and Decision-Making (with Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd and Susanna Loeb) Chicago University Press, 2018.
[Review by David Steiner (Education Next). Symposium in the Journal of Philosophy of Education with contributions from John Tillson, Winston C Thompson, Michael Hand, Randall Curren and Caroline Bagelman, and our reply]
Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships (with Harry Brighouse) Princeton University Press, 2014.
[Reviews by Samantha Brennan (Theory and Research in Education), Tim Fowler (Ethics), Gideon Calder (European Journal of Political Theory), George Sher (Social Theory and Practice), David Archard (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews), Jörg Löschke (Ethical Theory and Moral Practice). Symposium in Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2015 with Luara Ferracioli, Anca Gheaus and Sarah Stroud, and our reply. Symposium in Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy with Anca Gheaus, Colin Macleod, Andree-Anne Cormier, Christine Sypnowich, Daniel Weinstock, and Sarah Hannan and R.J. Leland and our reply]
How Not To Be A Hypocrite: School Choice for the Morally Perplexed Parent Routledge Falmer, 2003.
[Symposium in Theory and Research in Education, 2004]
Against the Odds? Social Class and Social Justice in Industrial Societies (with Gordon Marshall and Stephen Roberts) Oxford University Press, 1997.
Liberals and Communitarians (with Stephen Mulhall) Blackwell, 1992, 2nd edition 1996.
Journal Articles
“Ideals, Proposals and Deciding What To Do”, in a symposium on Philip Kitcher’s The Main Enterprise of the World: Rethinking Education, Analysis Reviews (forthcoming).
‘Segregation from a Normative Perspective’, On Education, September 2021.
‘Parents’ Rights, Children’s Religion: A Familial Relationship Goods Approach’, Journal of Practical Ethics, December 2020.
‘Educational Goods Reconsidered: A Response’ (with Harry Brighouse, Helen F Ladd and Susanna Loeb), Journal of Philosophy of Education, September 2020.
‘What's Fair About That?’ London Review of Books, January 2020.
'The Political Morality of School Composition: The Case of Religious Selection' (with Matthew Clayton, Andrew Mason and Ruth Wareham), British Journal of Political Science, June 2019.
'Dethroning Democratic Legitimacy' (with Zofia Stemplowska), in Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy 4 (Oxford University Press, 2018).
'Good Education Policy Making: Data-Informed but Values-Driven' (with Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, and Susanna Loeb), Phi Delta Kappan, December 2018.
'Family Ethics and Public Policy: Beyond the medical model' (with Harry Brighouse), American Journal of Bioethics, November 2018.
'Family Values Reconsidered: A Response' (with Harry Brighouse), Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, November 2017.
'Educational Goods and Values: A Framework for Decision-Makers' (with Harry Brighouse, Helen F. Ladd, and Susanna Loeb), Theory and Research in Education, 2016.
'Advantage, Authority, Autonomy and Continuity: A Response to Ferracioli, Gheaus and Stroud' (with Harry Brighouse), Law, Ethics and Philosophy, 2015.
'Response to Heckman', contribution to forum on Promoting Social Mobility in the Boston Review, September/October 2012.
'Schools and Social Mobility' (with Vikki Boliver), Sociology Review 22(2), 2012.
'Comprehensive Schools and Social Mobility' (with Vikki Boliver), Renewal 19(2), July 2011.
'Do comprehensive schools reduce social mobility?' (with Vikki Boliver), British Journal of Sociology 62(1), March 2011.
'School Choice for those who have no choice' (with Harry Brighouse), Questa, March 2010.
'Educational Equality v Educational Adequacy: A Response to Anderson and Satz' (with Harry Brighouse), Journal of Applied Philosophy 26(2), May 2009.
'Legitimate Parental Partiality' (with Harry Brighouse), Philosophy and Public Affairs 37(1), Winter 2009. [German translation in M. Betzler and B. Bleisch (eds.) Familiä]
'Putting Educational Equality in its Place' (with Harry Brighouse), Education Finance and Policy 3(4), October 2008.
'Comment on Carole Pateman and Charles Mills: Contract and Domination', Journal of Political Ideologies, October 2008.
'The Value of Philosophy in Nonideal Circumstances', Social Theory and Practice 34(3), July 2008.
'The End of the Tory War on Single Parents?' (with Harry Brighouse), Public Policy Research, November 2007.
'Egalitarianism' (with Harry Brighouse), New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics (2nd ed), August 2002.
'Parents' Rights and the Value of the Family', (with Harry Brighouse), Ethics, October 2006. [Reprinted in A. Bailey et al (eds.) The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: The Twentieth Century and Beyond (2008)]
'Equality, Priority and Positional Goods' (with Harry Brighouse), Ethics, April 2006.
The Morality of School Choice Reconsidered: A Response, Theory and Research in Education, 2004. [This appears in Catalan in M. Àngel Alegre, X. Rambla and O. Valiente (eds.) L'elecció de centre escolar a Catalunya. Elements per a un debat, 2009.]
‘How not to defend private schools’, Cambridge University PressThink, 2004.
’The Morality of School Choice’, Theory and Research in Education, 2004.
'Would Perfect Mobility be Perfect?’, European Sociological Review, 2004.
'Defending Liberalism in Education Theory' with Harry Brighouse’, Journal of Education Policy, 2003.
'Seizing the Opportunity: The Influence of Preferences and Aspirations on Social Immobility', New Economy, 2003.
'Class Analysis from a Normative Perspective', British Journal of Sociology, 2000.
'The Relation between Social-Scientific and Philosophical Analyses of Distributive Justice', Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, 1999.
'What Is and What Ought to Be: Popular Beliefs about Distributive Justice in 13 Countries' (with Gordon Marshall, Carole Burgoyne, and David Routh), European Sociological Review, 1999.
'On the Meaning and Measurement of Inequality' (with Gordon Marshall), Acta Sociologica, 1999.
'Meritocratic Equality of Opportunity: Economic Efficiency, Social Justice, or Both?' (with Gordon Marshall), Policy Studies, 1997.
'Merit and Mobility: A Reply to Peter Saunders' (with Gordon Marshall) Sociology, 1996.
'Class, Gender, and the Asymmetry Hypothesis' (with Gordon Marshall, Carole Burgoyne, David Routh and Stephen Roberts), European Sociological Review, 1995.
‘Social Class and Social Justice’ (with Gordon Marshall), The British Journal of Sociology, June 1993
Book Chapters
'Who Should Make Decisions About Children’s Education’ (with Harry Brighouse) in R. Curren (ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Education (Routledge, 2023).
‘Values and Evidence in Educational Decision-Making’ (with Harry Brighouse) in R. Curren (ed.) Handbook of Philosophy of Education (Routledge, 2023).
‘Pandemic as Political Theory’ in A. Bhattacharya and F. Niker (eds.) Political Philosophy in a Pandemic (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021).
'Family Value Without Gender' in E. Mbonda and T. Ngosso (eds.) Theories de la Justice: Justice globale, agents de la justice et justice de genre (Louvain University Press, 2016).
'The Place of Educational Equality in Educational Justice' (with Harry Brighouse) in K. Meyer (ed.) Education, Justice and the Human Good (Routledge, 2014).
'The Goods of Parenting' (with Harry Brighouse), in F. Baylis and C. McLeod (eds.) Family-Making: Contemporary Ethical Challenges (Oxford University Press, 2014).
'Ideal and Nonideal Theory in Rawls' (with Zofia Stemplowska), in J. Mandle and D. Reidy (eds.) A Companion to Rawls (Blackwell, 2013).
'Family' and 'Parents' Rights and Responsibilities' (with Harry Brighouse), in H. LaFollette (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Ethics (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
'Family Values and Schools Policy: Shaping Values and Conferring Advantage', with Harry Brighouse, in D. Allen and R. Reich (eds.) Education, Justice, Democracy (Chicago University Press, 2013). [This book won the 2013 American Publishers Award for Scholarly Excellence in the Education category.]
'Ideal and Nonideal Theory' (with Zofia Stemplowska), in D. Estlund (ed.) Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2012).
'Legitimate Partiality, Parents and Patriots' (with Harry Brighouse), in A. Gosseries and Y. Vanderborght (eds.) Arguing About Justice: Essays for Philippe Van Parijs (Louvain University Press, 2011)
Familiäre Pflichten (contributor) by Monika Betzler and Barbara Bleisch (eds.)(Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft, 2015).
'Political Theory, Social Science, and Real Politics' (with Stuart White), in D. Leopold and M. Stears (eds.) Political Theory: Methods and Approaches (Oxford University Press, 2008).
'Social Justice and the Family' (with Harry Brighouse), in G. Craig, D. Gordon and T. Burchardt (eds.) Social Justice and Public Policy (Policy Press, 2008).
’Justice, Luck and the Family’, in S. Bowles, H.Gintis and M.Osborne-Groves (eds.) Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success (Princeton University Press, 2005).
’Political Philosophy and Politics’ in A. Leftwich (ed.) What Is Politics? (Polity 2004)
’Rawls and Communitarianism’ (with Stephen Mulhall) in S. Freeman (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
’Social Justice: Why Does It Matter What The People Think?’ in D. Bell and A. de-Shalit (eds.) Forms of Justice (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003).
'Wesolowski, Walzer and the Complex Good of Education' in Melvin L. Kohn et al (eds.) Power and Social Structure, Essays in Honour of Wlodzimierz Wesolowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, 1999).
'The Social Self in Political Theory: The Communitarian Critique of the Liberal Subject' (with Stephen Mulhall), in D. Bakhurst and C. Sypnowich (eds.) The Social Self (Sage, 1995).
'The Sociology of Complex Equality', in D. Miller and M. Walzer (eds.) Pluralism, Justice and Equality (Oxford University Press, 1995).
'Social Class and Social Justice' (with Gordon Marshall), British Journal of Sociology 1993 and in G. Marshall Repositioning Class: Social Inequality in Industrial Societies (Sage, 1997).
Book Reviews
Danielle Allen, Education and Equality. Ethics 127(3) April 2017, pp.762-767.
Sigal R. Ben-Porath, Tough Choices: Structured Parentalism and the Landscape of Choice. Theory and Research in Education 10(2) June 2012, pp.203-206.
‘We Are All Pluralists Now.’ William A. Galston, Liberal Pluralism: The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice. The Responsive Community 13(3) Summer 2003, pp.61-65.
Review of David Boucher and Paul Kelly eds., Social Justice: from Hume to Walzer. Political Studies 48(1) March 2000, pp.141-142.
‘Equality Matters.’ Paul Barker ed., Living as Equals. The Times Literary Supplement, April 17, 1998. http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/private/equality-matters/.
Dennis H. Wrong, The Problem of Order: What Unites and Divides Society. The British Journal of Sociology 48(1) March 1997, pp.167-168.
David Johnston, The Idea of a Liberal Theory: A Critique and Reconstruction. Political Studies 44(2) 1996, pp.363-364.
Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit eds., A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy. Utilitas 7(1) May 1995, pp.184-186.
‘Justice for the Tribes.’ Michael Walzer, Thick and Thin, Moral argument at home and abroad. The Times Literary Supplement, May 12, 1995.
Franco Crespi, Social Action and Power. The British Journal of Sociology 45(3) September 1994, pp.517-518.
‘Liberalism is Enough.’ Derek L. Phillips, Looking Backward: A Critical Appraisal of Communitarian Thought. Times Literary Supplement 1994 (?)
John Rawls, Political Liberalism. The Philosophical Quarterly 44(177) October 1994, pp.542-545 (with Stephen Mulhall).
Ian Forbes, Marx and the New Individual. The British Journal of Sociology 43(3) September 1992, pp.504-505.