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John McCormick Office: Pick Hall 422B Phone: 773 834 4353 Email Interests:
  • Modern political thought
  • Renaissance Italy
  • 20th century Germany
  • Contemporary democratic theory
  • European politics
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John P. McCormick is Professor of Political Science. His research and teaching interests include political thought in Renaissance Florence (specifically, Guicciardini and Machiavelli), 19th and 20th century continental political and social theory (with a focus on Weimar Germany and Central European emigres to the US), the philosophy and sociology of law, the normative dimensions of European integration, and contemporary democratic theory. 

Recent Research / Recent Publications

Reading Machiavelli

Reading Machiavelli (Princeton University Press, 2018). 

Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy

Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy  (Princeton University Press, 2013).

Machiavellian Democracy

Machiavellian Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Weber, Habermas, and Transformations of the European StateĀ 

Weber, Habermas, and Transformations of the European State (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology

Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology (Cambridge University Pres, 1997).