Home>Annabelle Lever

Research Interest(s): Epistemic Democracy, Sexual and Racial Justice, Ethics of Security
Discipline(s): Political Science
Biography
After teaching political theory in America, (University of Rochester New York; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard), Annabelle taught for several years in England, (University of Reading, London School of Economics) before joining the Political Science Department at the University of Geneva. She joined the Ecole Doctorale at Sciences Po in September, 2017, when she also became a member of CEVIPOF.
She is a co-editor of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; and a member of the editorial board of theEuropean Journal of Political Theory, and of Raison Politique. Her research on democratic theory, contemporary political theory, ethics and public policy, on security, privacy and intellectual property has been published in Philosophy and Public Affairs, The British Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, the Journal of Applied Philosophy and CRISPP. (www.alever.net) She is the author of On Privacy and A Democratic Conception of Privacy, and the editor of New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property, and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy and of Ideas That Matter. Since 2011, she has worked as an ‘ethics expert’ for the EU’s DG Research, and for national research agencies in Ireland, Estonia and Switzerland.
publications
- Annabelle Lever. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective. Pragma Publishing, 2023, RECONSTRUCTING DEMOCRACY IN TIMES OF CRISIS A Voter-Centred Perspective, Annabelle Lever, ⟨10.62483/73867875⟩. ⟨hal-04774577⟩
- Annabelle Lever, Timmerman Cristian. Justice In Global Intellectual Property Governance. Justice in Global Economic Governance, pp.215-224, In press, http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.27775767. ⟨10.3366/jj.27775767.25⟩. ⟨hal-05270858⟩
- Annabelle Lever, Attila Mráz. Introduction: democratic ethics and voting. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2025, 28 (5), pp.729-736. ⟨10.1080/13698230.2025.2524977⟩. ⟨hal-05236494⟩
- Andreas Brøgger Albertsen, Annabelle Lever. A new way to serve democracy: recruiting poll workers and electoral participation. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2025, 28, pp.866 - 885. ⟨10.1080/13698230.2025.2524984⟩. ⟨hal-05236495⟩
- Attila Mráz, Annabelle Lever. Voter-Centred Perspectives on Electoral Democracy. Annabelle Lever. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective, Pragma Publishing, pp.151-186, 2023, Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective, ⟨10.62483/19430535⟩. ⟨hal-04774603⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Bastille Magazine: Peut-on sauver la démocratie ? engl version. 2024. ⟨hal-04774564⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Reviving Electoral Democracy. 2024. ⟨hal-04774557⟩
- Andreas Albertsen, Annabelle Lever. Opportunities for Citizens to Participate in Organising Elections in Europe. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective, Pragma Publishing, pp.267-284, 2023, ⟨10.62483/97304320⟩. ⟨hal-04774619⟩
- Attila Mráz, Annabelle Lever. How Political Institutions Affect the Conflicts of Duty and Prudence Facing Democratic Voters. annabelle lever. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective, Pragma Publishing, pp.217-244, 2023, Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective, ⟨10.62483/87045204⟩. ⟨hal-04774610⟩
- Attila Mráz, Annabelle Lever. Democratic Political Institutions in Europe. Annabelle Lever. Reconstructing Democracy in Times of Crisis: A Voter-Centred Perspective, Pragma Communication, pp.7-52, 2023, ⟨10.62483/47046093⟩. ⟨hal-04774594⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Democracy and the Ethics of Voting. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2024, pp.1-17. ⟨10.1080/13698230.2024.2426113⟩. ⟨hal-04774545⟩
- Annabelle Lever. "The Circumstances of Democracy": Why Random Selection Is Not Better Than Elections if We Value Political Equality and Privacy. Washington University Review of Philosophy, 2023, 2023 (3), pp.100-115. ⟨hal-04214708⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Review of Yves Sintomer's The Government of Chance: Sortition from Athens to the Present. European Political Science, 2023, online first. ⟨hal-04214685⟩
- Annabelle Lever. On Privacy. 2023. ⟨hal-04077929⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Citizen Assemblies and the Challenges of Democracy. 2023. ⟨hal-03891036⟩
- Annabelle Lever, Chiara Destri. Egalité démocratique et tirage au sort. Raison-publique.fr : arts, politique, société, 2023, Philosophie des élections, 26, pp.63-79. ⟨hal-03905011⟩
- Chiara Destri, Annabelle Lever. Egalité démocratique et tirage au sort. Raison-publique.fr : arts, politique, société, 2023, 26, pp.63-79. ⟨hal-04168637⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Democracy: Should We Replace Elections With Random Selection?. Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, 2023, 56 (2), ⟨10.1163/24689300-bja10042⟩. ⟨hal-03891035v2⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise. Res Publica, 2023, ⟨10.1007/s11158-023-09589-0⟩. ⟨hal-04055092⟩
- Annabelle Lever. La démocratie et la sélection: tirage au sort, élections et l'égalité. La Démocratie, une idée force, Mare et Martin, 2023, Démocratie, une idée force. ⟨hal-03891030⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Les Assemblées Citoyennes et le Défis de la Démocratie. 2022. ⟨hal-03905000⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Plaidoyer pour la déconstruction. 2022. ⟨hal-03891037⟩
- Annabelle Lever, Cristian Timmermann. Justice in Global Intellectual Property. Justice in Economic Governance, In press. ⟨hal-03904989⟩
- Annabelle Lever. Equality and Constitutionality. Richard Bellamy; Jeff King. Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory, Cambridge University Press, 2022, 9781108491310. ⟨hal-03366184⟩
- Annabelle Lever, Dominik Gerber. Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy Introduction. Raisons politiques, 2021, Pragmatism and Epistemic Democracy, 81, pp.5 - 10. ⟨10.3917/rai.081.0005⟩.