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Overview

James Turner Johnson is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines within the social sciences, focusing primarily on political science and international relations, law, sociology and political science, economics and econometrics, and philosophy.

Their scholarly contributions include work published in various academic venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Perspectives on Politics
  • Journal of Political Power
  • Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel
  • Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Among recent papers authored by Johnson are:

  • Models-As-Fables: An Alternative to the Standard Rationale for Using Formal Models in Political Science (2020), published in Perspectives on Politics
  • Grumpy Old Men: reconsidering Rational Choice & Political Power (2021), published in Journal of Political Power
  • The Toronto Municipal Election: Judicial Failure to Protect the Structure of the Canadian Constitution (2020), published in Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel
  • Political economy, institutional reconstruction, and 'realistic utopia': a pragmatist view (2025), published in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy

Research topics covered in Johnson's work cover a range of themes, including but not limited to:

  • Nuclear Issues and Defense
  • War, Ethics, and Justification
  • European and Russian Geopolitical Military Strategies
  • Economic Theory and Institutions
  • Global Peace and Security Dynamics
  • Torture, Ethics, and Law
  • Judicial and Constitutional Studies

Johnson has collaborated with coauthors such as Jack Knight, indicating engagement in joint scholarly research.

Their academic output also reflects a combination of theoretical and applied approaches to understanding complex social, political, and legal phenomena, evident in the diversity of their publication topics and venues.

Best Publications

  • Aggregation and Deliberation: On the Possibility of Democratic Legitimacy:

    Jack Knight;James Johnson

  • Is Talk Really Cheap? Prompting Conversation between Critical Theory and Rational Choice.

    James Johnson

  • The Priority of Democracy: Political Consequences of Pragmatism

    Jack Knight;James Johnson

  • Habermas on Strategic and Communicative Action

    James Johnson

  • Morality and Contemporary Warfare

    James Turner Johnson

  • Just War Tradition and the Restraint of War: A Moral and Historical Inquiry

    James Turner Johnson

  • Rationality and Revolution

    James Johnson;Michael Taylor

  • Can modern war be just

    James Turner Johnson

  • Consequences of Positivism A Pragmatist Assessment

    James Johnson

  • HOW CONCEPTUAL PROBLEMS MIGRATE: Rational Choice, Interpretation, and the Hazards of Pluralism

    James Johnson

  • Just war tradition and the restraint of war

    James Turner Johnson

  • The Priority of Democracy: A Pragmatist Approach to Political-Economic Institutions and the Burden of Justification

    Jack Knight;James Johnson

  • Conceptual Problems as Obstacles to Progress in Political Science: Four Decades of Political Culture Research

    James Johnson

  • The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions

    James Turner Johnson

  • Deliberative Democracy: Arguing for Deliberation: Some Skeptical Considerations

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  • Aristocratic violence and Holy War : studies in the Jihad and the Arab-Byzantine frontier

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  • Just War and Jihad: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives on War and Peace in Western and Islamic Traditions

    John Kelsay;James Turner Johnson

  • The Quest for Peace: Three Moral Traditions in Western Cultural History

    James Turner Johnson

  • Why Respect Culture

    James Johnson

  • Interpretation and Coordination in Constitutional Politics

    James Johnson;Randall Calvert

  • The War to Oust Saddam Hussein: Just War and the New Face of Conflict

    James Turner Johnson

  • Inquiry into Democracy: What Might a Pragmatist Make of Rational Choice Theories?

    Jack Knight;James Johnson

  • Cross, Crescent, and Sword: The Justification and Limitation of War in Western and Islamic Tradition

    James Turner Johnson;John Kelsay

  • Morality and Contemporary Warfare

    Douglas C. Peifer;James Turner Johnson

Frequent Co-Authors

Amitai Etzioni
Amitai Etzioni George Washington University
Margaret Levi
Margaret Levi Stanford University
Susan C. Stokes
Susan C. Stokes University of Chicago
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Jean Bethke Elshtain University of Chicago
John A. Vasquez
John A. Vasquez University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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