Alice Baderin is a Lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Reading. Her current research focuses on two main areas of contemporary political philosophy. First, she is interested in questions of justice and risk: What is it like to live with insecurity, and how does foregrounding this issue shape our thinking about the demands of social justice? Second, she is addressing problems of method in political theory. For example, what role should evidence about public opinion play in normative political theory? How should we understand and evaluate recent calls for more ‘realistic’ approaches to the discipline? Some of her current research integrates philosophical argument with in-depth analysis of quantitative evidence – with the aim of generating payoffs for both normative theory and empirical enquiry.

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