Ilya Somin

Best Publications

• Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter

  Ilya Somin

  585
  Citations

• Voter ignorance and the democratic ideal

  Ilya Somin

  304
  Citations

• Democracy and Political Ignorance

  Unknown

  209
  Citations

• Should International Law Be Part of Our Law

  John O. McGinnis;Ilya Somin

  162
  Citations

• Federalism vs. states' rights: A defense of judicial review in a federal system

  John O. McGinnis;Ilya Somin

  152
  Citations

• Knowledge about ignorance: New directions in the study of political information

  Ilya Somin

  140
  Citations

• Controlling the Grasping Hand: Economic Development Takings after Kelo

  Ilya Somin

  139
  Citations

• DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY AND POLITICAL IGNORANCE

  Ilya Somin

  118
  Citations

• The Grasping Hand: "Kelo v. City of New London" and the Limits of Eminent Domain

  Ilya Somin

  75
  Citations

• Democracy and international human rights law

  John O. McGinnis;Ilya Somin

  69
  Citations

• The Limits of Backlash

  Ilya Somin

  54
  Citations

• Eminent Domain in the United States

  Ilya Somin

  29
  Citations

• FOOT VOTING, POLITICAL IGNORANCE, AND CONSTITUTIONAL DESIGN

  Ilya Somin

  28
  Citations

• Political Ignorance and the Countermajoritarian Difficulty: A New Perspective on the 'Central Obsession' of Constitutional Theory

  Ilya Somin

  20
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• The Ongoing Debate Over Political Ignorance: Reply to My Critics

  Ilya Somin

  20
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• The promise and peril of epistocracy

  Ilya Somin

  17
  Citations

• Richard Posner's democratic pragmatism and the problem of ignorance

  Ilya Somin

  14
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• Overcoming Poletown: County of Wayne v. Hathcock, Economic Development Takings, and the Future of Public Use

  Ilya Somin

  13
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• Why Political Ignorance Undermines the Wisdom of the Many

  Ilya Somin

  11
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