Justin Pottle
Biographic Data
| ID | 1179959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Justin Pottle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Justin |
| FAMILY NAME | Pottle |
| SIGNATURE | POTTLE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7870-5527 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Partisan bias in a sorted party system
Normative and empirical scholars typically treat partisans’ distrust of their political rivals as a product of individual cognitive biases. But even if bias is inevitable, it is parties’ coalition‐building and messaging strategies that determine who bias is directed toward. This paper argues that the social sorting of party conflict exacerbates the epistemic and democratic harm of partisan distrust by generating distinctive patterns of epistemic …
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection
This article argues office seekers’ messaging gives rise to a distinct and underappreciated epistemic form of political inequality. Electoral incentives push representatives to orient their rhetoric toward appealing to strategically valuable constituencies, yielding flows of elite cues that disproportionately reflect those groups’ perspectives. When inequalities in strategic value overlap with other inequalities of social power, politicians’ mess…
Democratic Equality Beyond Deliberation
Many theorists believe ideals of deliberation realize democratic equality by ensuring each speaker's influence is commensurate with the strength of the reasons they give. This article argues that view is incomplete. When the frames, interpretations, and concepts speakers bring into debate disproportionately reflect the perspectives of socially advantaged groups, they contribute to hermeneutic injustices that impede marginalized citizens' voice ev…
What Can Voting Do for Democracy
Empirical political scientists and normative political theorists alike have challenged the grip elections hold on our democratic imagination, albeit for very different reasons. Against both sets of critics, Emilee Booth Chapman’s remarkable and timely new book Election Day: How We Vote and What it Means for Democracy makes a compelling case for the ballot box’s unique place in democratic theory as a site of collective agency among political equal…
Political Context, White House Centralization, and the Timing of Presidential Nominations to the Federal Courts
Judicial nominations offer presidents one of their most important and enduring sources of influence. Studying all vacancies in federal district courts from 1961 to 2018, we show that presidents announce nominations to vacant judgeships at systematically faster rates in districts that provided greater electoral support. This pattern emerged most clearly in the last four decades and has strengthened over time. Additional evidence illustrates how pr…
The Greatest Flood of Mass Suggestion”
Political theorists have long worried that propaganda turns the democratic commitment to open communication into a tool of domination by elites. Where recent empirical and normative work on elite rhetoric focuses on how speech acts can exercise democratically problematic forms of power, I draw on John Dewey to argue that such approaches neglect how social organization shapes audiences’ vulnerability to propaganda. I reconstruct Dewey’s account of…
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection
This article argues office seekers’ messaging gives rise to a distinct and underappreciated epistemic form of political inequality. Electoral incentives push representatives to orient their rhetoric toward appealing to strategically valuable constituencies, yielding flows of elite cues that disproportionately reflect those groups’ perspectives. When inequalities in strategic value overlap with other inequalities of social power, politicians’ mess…
Democratic Equality Beyond Deliberation
Many theorists believe ideals of deliberation realize democratic equality by ensuring each speaker's influence is commensurate with the strength of the reasons they give. This article argues that view is incomplete. When the frames, interpretations, and concepts speakers bring into debate disproportionately reflect the perspectives of socially advantaged groups, they contribute to hermeneutic injustices that impede marginalized citizens' voice ev…
The Greatest Flood of Mass Suggestion”
Political theorists have long worried that propaganda turns the democratic commitment to open communication into a tool of domination by elites. Where recent empirical and normative work on elite rhetoric focuses on how speech acts can exercise democratically problematic forms of power, I draw on John Dewey to argue that such approaches neglect how social organization shapes audiences’ vulnerability to propaganda. I reconstruct Dewey’s account of…
Political Context, White House Centralization, and the Timing of Presidential Nominations to the Federal Courts
Judicial nominations offer presidents one of their most important and enduring sources of influence. Studying all vacancies in federal district courts from 1961 to 2018, we show that presidents announce nominations to vacant judgeships at systematically faster rates in districts that provided greater electoral support. This pattern emerged most clearly in the last four decades and has strengthened over time. Additional evidence illustrates how pr…
What Can Voting Do for Democracy
Empirical political scientists and normative political theorists alike have challenged the grip elections hold on our democratic imagination, albeit for very different reasons. Against both sets of critics, Emilee Booth Chapman’s remarkable and timely new book Election Day: How We Vote and What it Means for Democracy makes a compelling case for the ballot box’s unique place in democratic theory as a site of collective agency among political equal…
Epistemic Injustice and the Electoral Connection
This article argues office seekers’ messaging gives rise to a distinct and underappreciated epistemic form of political inequality. Electoral incentives push representatives to orient their rhetoric toward appealing to strategically valuable constituencies, yielding flows of elite cues that disproportionately reflect those groups’ perspectives. When inequalities in strategic value overlap with other inequalities of social power, politicians’ mess…
Democratic Equality Beyond Deliberation
Many theorists believe ideals of deliberation realize democratic equality by ensuring each speaker's influence is commensurate with the strength of the reasons they give. This article argues that view is incomplete. When the frames, interpretations, and concepts speakers bring into debate disproportionately reflect the perspectives of socially advantaged groups, they contribute to hermeneutic injustices that impede marginalized citizens' voice ev…
Partisan bias in a sorted party system
Normative and empirical scholars typically treat partisans’ distrust of their political rivals as a product of individual cognitive biases. But even if bias is inevitable, it is parties’ coalition‐building and messaging strategies that determine who bias is directed toward. This paper argues that the social sorting of party conflict exacerbates the epistemic and democratic harm of partisan distrust by generating distinctive patterns of epistemic …
Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Democracy (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (3 works) · Inequality (3 works)