•  16
    The wrong of mercenarism: a promissory account
    Journal of Political Philosophy 31 (4): 470-493. 2023.
    Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
  •  6
    Rescuing the state from itself: a reply to critics
    Jurisprudence 13 (3): 449-457. 2022.
    I wish to thank the contributors to this symposium for the thoughtfulness and care with which they engaged with my book, The Privatized State. I wrote this book with two animating goals in mind. Th...
  •  10
    Kantian democracy and administrative legitimacy: a reply to my critics
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (2): 267-276. 2023.
    I first defend my Kantian account of the authority of democracy against Harel’s objection that it mandates democratic rule when it is not required and Stilz’s concern that the justification of democracy I propose is not sufficiently capacious to rescue democratic rule from epistocratic challenges. I then rescue my integrated model of administrative legitimacy from Vredenburgh’s charge that such model cannot solve the tension between the demands of democracy and those of bureaucracy. I finally ad…Read more
  •  15
    The Privatized State
    Princeton University Press. 2020.
    Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State argues that it cannot. In this boldly provocative book, Chiara Cordelli argues that privatization constitutes a …Read more
  •  26
    Liberalism and religion: the plural grounds of separation
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 23 (1): 68-80. 2020.
  •  2
    Reparative Justice and the Moral Limits of Discretionary Philanthropy
    In Reich Rob, Chiara Cordelli & Lucy Bernholz (eds.), Philanthropy in Democratic Societies, The University of Chicago Press. 2017.
  • Democratizing Organized Religion
    Journal of Politics 79 (2). 2017.
  •  1
    Philanthropy in Democratic Societies (edited book)
    with Reich Rob and Lucy Bernholz
    The University of Chicago Press. 2017.
    Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as the contributors to this book show, philanthropy is also an exercise of power. And like all forms of power, especially in a democratic society, it deserves scrutiny. Yet it rarely has been given serious attention. This book fills that gap, bringing …Read more
  •  67
    Prospective Duties and the Demands of Beneficence
    Ethics 128 (2): 373-401. 2018.
    I argue that an agent can be appropriately blamed for failing to assist someone in need, even if her failure to assist is not wrong, and that an agent can be morally required to assist even if assisting is overly costly for her—more costly than what the relevant moral baseline is ordinarily taken to allow. Whether this is the case depends on whether the agent has previously failed to discharge her “prospective duties.” Once these duties are taken into consideration, even apparently moderate acco…Read more
  •  35
    Neutrality of what?
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 20 (1): 36-48. 2017.
  •  64
    How privatization threatens the private
    Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 16 (1): 65-87. 2013.
    Across countries, governments are urging civil society, in particular charitable and non-profit associations, to take up a part of the social burden, and to produce and provide critical human services and social goods, either independently or on governments' behalf. This type of privatization, or public–private partnership, is encouraged by many on grounds of pluralism and liberty, as empowering individuals and their associations. In this paper, I aim to provide a liberty-based normative argumen…Read more
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    Justice as Fairness and Relational Resources
    Journal of Political Philosophy 23 (1): 86-110. 2014.