David Ciepley

Fellow

Affiliated Visiting Researcher of Political Science, Uppsala University, Sweden

David Ciepley directs the Stewardship Economy Initiative and is an Affiliated Visiting Researcher of Political Science at Uppsala University in Sweden. Ciepley publishes in the fields of democratic theory, liberal theory, and corporate theory. He has held fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford), the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (Uppsala), and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Washington, DC), among other residential fellowships, and has been a Fulbright scholar at McGill. He is the author of Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism (2006), “Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation” (APSR 2013), and “Is the US Government a Corporation? The Corporate Genesis of Modern Constitutionalism” (APSR 2017). His current book project, Constitutional Democracy and the Corporation, recovers the corporate roots of the democratic constitutional state and analyzes the changing relationship between this state and the business corporation over time.

Ciepley, David. “Democracy and the Corporation: The Long View.” Annual Review of Political Science 26: 489-517. 2023.

Ciepley, David. “Beyond Public and Private: Toward a Political Theory of the Corporation,” American Political Science Review 107 (1): 139-158. 2013.