Dr Will Selinger

Will Selinger is Lecturer in European History, 1700-1850. He is a historian of political thought whose research has focused on the emergence of representative democracy in the modern world and on the crises to which this political form has repeatedly been subject. His first book, Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber, winner of the 2017 Montreal Annual Political Theory Manuscript Award, was published by Cambridge University Press in the Ideas in Context series. His current research project is on the intellectual origins of the constitutional court in the eighteenth century.

Major publications

• Parliamentarism: From Burke to Weber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• 'Fighting electoral corruption in the Victorian era: An overlooked dimension of John Stuart Mill's political thought', European Journal of Political Theory 18 (2019)
• 'The politics of Arendtian historiography: European federation and the origins of totalitarianism', Modern Intellectual History 13 (2016)
• 'Le grand mal de l'époque: Tocqueville on French political corruption', History of European Ideas 42 (2016)

For a full list of publications, please see Will's Iris profile.

Teaching

• The Political Thought of the French Revolution
• Empire and Commerce in the Enlightenment
• The Enlightenment
• Method and Practice in the History of Political Thought and Intellectual History
• The History of Political Thought in the West