Brian Barry Prize in Political Science

Professor Göran Duus-Otterström, for his essay 'Emissions Sufficientarianism and Climate Justice'

Göran Duus-Otterström is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg as well as a researcher in the Institute for Futures Studies, Stockholm. He is a political theorist whose work mainly focuses on legal punishment and climate justice. He is currently co-principal investigator of the research programme “Climate Ethics and Future Generations” (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, 2018-2013) and has published widely on the normative aspects of climate policy, especially burden sharing justice and the relevance of historical responsibility for current duties to respond to climate change. His work has appeared in journals such as British Journal of Political Science, Environmental Politics, Global Environmental Change, and Law & Philosophy. He has previously held visiting or permanent positions at the University of Warwick (2008-2009), the University of St Gallen (2013), and Aarhus University (2017-2021).

"I am obviously delighted to have been awarded the 2023 Brian Barry prize and wish to express my gratitude to the British Academy for recognizing my work. Brian Barry was a towering figure in analytical political philosophy whose work continues to shape several contemporary debates - not least the topic of intergenerational justice, which my essay addresses. Though professor Barry did write insightfully and passionately about environmental issues and our responsibility to unborn generations, to my knowledge, he never got around to writing specifically about climate change and climate justice. This is a shame as we would all undoubtedly have benefited from hearing what he had to say about it. On a personal note, I would also have loved to know whether he would accept the conclusions I advance in the essay. Professor Barry’s influence on contemporary climate ethics is nevertheless immense via his pioneering work on the vexing questions that emerge once justice is applied between generations as opposed to between contemporaries.”

– Professor Göran Duus-Otterström, August 2022

Associate Professor Chiara Cordelli, for her essay 'Freeing People, Restricting Capital'

Chiara Cordelli is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She works on a variety of topics in political philosophy, including questions of distributive justice, political legitimacy, normative defenses of the state, and the ethics of philanthropy. She is the author of The Privatized State (Princeton University Press, 2020), which was awarded the 2021 ECPR Political Theory Prize for best first book in political theory, and of Privatocrazia (Mondadori 2022). She has published articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Ethics, the Journal of Political Philosophy, the Journal of Politics and the British Journal of Political Science, among others. She is also the co-editor of Philanthropy in Democratic Societies (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Cordelli held visiting positions at Stanford (2011-13), Princeton (2014-15), Harvard (2018-19) and EHESS in Paris (2021-22).

"Receiving this year’s Brian Barry Prize from the British Academy is a great honour. This is especially true given the deep admiration I have for Professor Barry’s scholarship and for his exemplary ability to combine rigorous philosophical argument with the social sciences and social policy. The paper itself was first stimulated by Barry’s own writings on the mobility of capital, and I hope this prize will bring further attention to this not yet fully appreciated aspect of his work."

– Associate Professor Chiara Cordelli, August 2022

Not awarded

Associate Professor Jonathan Havercroft, University of Southampton, for 'Why is there no just riot theory?'

Jonathan Havercroft is an Associate Professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Southampton. His research has appeared in International Studies Quarterly, Political Theory, Constellations, Polity, Review of International Studies, and Social Sciences Quarterly. He is the author of Captives of Sovereignty (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and the editor of the journal Global Constitutionalism. His current research focuses on the normative analysis of political violence. During the 2020 – 2021 academic year he will be a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow working on a project entitled: “Just and Unjust Riots: A Normative Analysis of Militant Protest.”

“I am deeply honoured and humbled to receive this year’s Brian Barry Prize in Political Science. Professor Brian Barry taught at my institution, the University of Southampton, in the 1960s and wrote one of his major works Political Argument while there. As a scholar I take great inspiration from his lifelong commitment to fusing normative political theory with empirical political science. My current research on the normativity of riots attempts to do just that by combining the empirical analysis of political protest with traditional ethical analyses of political violence and obligation.”

– Professor Jonathan Havercroft, July 2020

Dr Andre Santos Campos, Nova University of Lisbon, for 'Representing the Future: The Interests of Future Persons in Representative Democracy'

Andre is a Research Fellow and Assistant Professor at the Nova University of Lisbon. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon (2009). His research interests lie in the intersection of political theory, jurisprudence and intellectual history. He is a member of the Nova Institute of Philosophy (Ifilnova), at the Nova School of Social Sciences and Humanities.

"I am both delighted and honoured to be this year's recipient of the Brian Barry Prize in Political Science. Professor Brian Barry was one of the first major political theorists to bring attention to the challenges posed by intergenerational justice to contemporary liberal democracies, especially concerning the future. This is undoubtedly one of the most pressing areas of research in political studies nowadays. To be able to contribute to it with my own research while following Professor Brian Barry's footsteps is a privilege I accept as carrying great responsibility."

- Andre Santos Campos, August 2019

Dr Zeynep Pamuk, St John's College, University of Oxford, for "Justifying Public Funding for Science"

Dr Jonathan White, London School of Economics and Political Science, for 'The Ethics of Political Alliance'

Professor William Roberts Clark, Texas A&M University, Professor Matt Golder, Pennsylvania State University, and Professor Sona N. Golder, Pennsylvania State University for 'An Exit, Voice, and Loyalty Model of Politics'

Dr Parashar Kulkarni, New York University, for 'Are There Cultural Prerequisites to Effective Property Rights?: Evidence from Inheritance Rights of Widows in Colonial India'

Dr Helder De Schutter, KU Leuven, and Dr Lea Ypi, LSE, for 'Mandatory Citizenship for Immigrants'