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Articles by Alfred Moore

January 15, 2024

🎭 Making identity politics less personal

Alfred Moore
Liberal democracies protect our freedom to express our identities. But Alfred Moore argues that the rigidity and entrenchment of ‘identity wars’ reminds us of another vital aspect of democracy: the freedom from expressing our identity. Creating distance from the self can promote fluidity and dynamism, and help to overcome polarisation
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Alfred Moore
Senior Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of York

Alfred has written widely on the politics of expertise.

His work engages a broad range of themes in contemporary democratic theory, including anonymity and deliberation, and democratic non-participation.

In 2020–21 he held a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the project Rethinking Political Competition, and he is currently researching the role of ideas of competition in democratic theory and practice.

@alfmoore

Critical Elitism Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise

Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Politics of Expertise
Cambridge University Press, 2017

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