Daniel Markovits
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Markovits |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Markovits |
| SIGNATURE | MARKOVITS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1006-2590 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Meritocracy Became Self-Defeating
Meritocracy is self-defeating. The ideals that animate meritocracy—a principled commitment to fairness and a prudent concern for the general welfare—are worthy; and meritocratic critiques of the various aristocracies that meritocracy displaced are apt. But while meritocracy initially succeeded at correcting aristocratic unfairness and imprudence, its mature form undermines the ideals that it purports to serve. Today, meritocracy sustains unfair d…
Physician Altruism and Spending, Hospital Admissions, and Emergency Department Visits
This cross-sectional study found that Medicare patients treated by altruistic physicians had fewer potentially preventable hospitalizations and emergency department visits and lower spending. Policymakers and leaders of hospitals, medical practices, and medical schools may want to consider creating incentives, organizational structures, and cultures that may increase, or at least do not decrease, physician altruism. Further research should seek t…
Congressional town halls
Members of the US Congress held over 25,000 town hall meetings over the last eight years, and yet we know very little about the role that these events play in American politics. In this article, we present new data on congressional town hall meetings held in the 114th to 117th Congresses (2015–2022) to explore why politicians hold such meetings. In short, we do not find consistent evidence that electoral vulnerability drives legislators to their …
A New Genre for a Discipline Made New
New Private Law Theory: A Pluralist Approach is a new kind of book. Nevertheless, the book does have forebearers, as innovation is itself an old practice. The best way to understand the book, therefore, is to look farther afield, to a prior effort to produce a new kind of legal book—the first casebook ever published. Christopher Columbus Langdell’s Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts landed in circumstances that could hardly have been more…
Foreign Aid and the Status Quo
Foreign aid has served as an important policy tool for centuries, yet international relations research essentially treats it as a novel, post-World War II phenomenon. We argue that documenting aid-like activities in earlier historical periods helps shed new light on the systemic political dynamics of aid giving. We introduce a framework that links aid giving to the status quo in international politics and populate the framework with a diverse set…
Three Issues in Legal Ethics
A court – which is the name given the institution charged with resolving legal disputes at retail – is comprised of three elements: an umpire (judge or jury), disputants, and advocates. The court's structural purpose is legitimate (which is not the same thing as just) dispute resolution. No part of the court can stand in for the whole; each is only a part. In order for the court to achieve legitimacy, each of its components must pursue partial ai…
How Much Redistribution Should There Be?
Egalitarianism ties people’s fortunes together. It takes the good and bad things in people’s lives—their blessings and their afflictions—and shares them out, or redistributes them, among their fellows. Where egalitarianism operates, each person’s fortunes and misfortunes cease to be just her own and become, to the extent egalitarianism recommends, a part of communal fortunes and misfortunes, shared in by all those who come under egalitarianism’s …
Congressional town halls
Members of the US Congress held over 25,000 town hall meetings over the last eight years, and yet we know very little about the role that these events play in American politics. In this article, we present new data on congressional town hall meetings held in the 114th to 117th Congresses (2015–2022) to explore why politicians hold such meetings. In short, we do not find consistent evidence that electoral vulnerability drives legislators to their …
Foreign Aid and the Status Quo
Foreign aid has served as an important policy tool for centuries, yet international relations research essentially treats it as a novel, post-World War II phenomenon. We argue that documenting aid-like activities in earlier historical periods helps shed new light on the systemic political dynamics of aid giving. We introduce a framework that links aid giving to the status quo in international politics and populate the framework with a diverse set…
How Much Redistribution Should There Be?
Egalitarianism ties people’s fortunes together. It takes the good and bad things in people’s lives—their blessings and their afflictions—and shares them out, or redistributes them, among their fellows. Where egalitarianism operates, each person’s fortunes and misfortunes cease to be just her own and become, to the extent egalitarianism recommends, a part of communal fortunes and misfortunes, shared in by all those who come under egalitarianism’s …
Three Issues in Legal Ethics
A court – which is the name given the institution charged with resolving legal disputes at retail – is comprised of three elements: an umpire (judge or jury), disputants, and advocates. The court's structural purpose is legitimate (which is not the same thing as just) dispute resolution. No part of the court can stand in for the whole; each is only a part. In order for the court to achieve legitimacy, each of its components must pursue partial ai…
Foreign Aid and the Status Quo
Foreign aid has served as an important policy tool for centuries, yet international relations research essentially treats it as a novel, post-World War II phenomenon. We argue that documenting aid-like activities in earlier historical periods helps shed new light on the systemic political dynamics of aid giving. We introduce a framework that links aid giving to the status quo in international politics and populate the framework with a diverse set…
A New Genre for a Discipline Made New
New Private Law Theory: A Pluralist Approach is a new kind of book. Nevertheless, the book does have forebearers, as innovation is itself an old practice. The best way to understand the book, therefore, is to look farther afield, to a prior effort to produce a new kind of legal book—the first casebook ever published. Christopher Columbus Langdell’s Selection of Cases on the Law of Contracts landed in circumstances that could hardly have been more…
Physician Altruism and Spending, Hospital Admissions, and Emergency Department Visits
This cross-sectional study found that Medicare patients treated by altruistic physicians had fewer potentially preventable hospitalizations and emergency department visits and lower spending. Policymakers and leaders of hospitals, medical practices, and medical schools may want to consider creating incentives, organizational structures, and cultures that may increase, or at least do not decrease, physician altruism. Further research should seek t…
Congressional town halls
Members of the US Congress held over 25,000 town hall meetings over the last eight years, and yet we know very little about the role that these events play in American politics. In this article, we present new data on congressional town hall meetings held in the 114th to 117th Congresses (2015–2022) to explore why politicians hold such meetings. In short, we do not find consistent evidence that electoral vulnerability drives legislators to their …
How Meritocracy Became Self-Defeating
Meritocracy is self-defeating. The ideals that animate meritocracy—a principled commitment to fairness and a prudent concern for the general welfare—are worthy; and meritocratic critiques of the various aristocracies that meritocracy displaced are apt. But while meritocracy initially succeeded at correcting aristocratic unfairness and imprudence, its mature form undermines the ideals that it purports to serve. Today, meritocracy sustains unfair d…
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Adjudication (1 works)