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LISA ELLIS: RESEARCH

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  • “The Ethics of Net Zero,” ARC project with Garrett Cullity, Christian Barry, Catriona McKinnon, and Stephen Gardiner; 2023-2026
  • “Climate Reporting Effectiveness,” XRB project with Sebastian Gehricke, Sara Walton, and Renzhu Zhang, 2023-2025
  • “A Just Transitions Guide for Aotearoa New Zealand,” MBIE project with Catherine Leining, et al., 2022-2023
  • 'On All Fronts: Overcoming Barriers to Change in the Aviation Sector (and beyond)' with James Higham and James Maclaurin
  • 'Social Contract Theory' for the Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought (eds Richard Bellamy, Carol Atack, Christopher Brooke, and Leigh Jenco)
  • 'The Collective Implications of Discrete Decisions in Environmental Policy'
  • 'How Carbon Taxation Can Facilitate Just Interaction in a Non-Ideal World: the Case of International Aviation Fuel'
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  • Will Dreyer & Elisabeth Ellis (2022): Do New Zealand select committees still make a difference? The case of the climate change response (Zero Carbon) amendment bill 2019, Political Science, DOI: 10.1080/00323187.2021.2019591
  • “Theorising Environmental Politics,” in Environmental Politics in Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press, forthcoming 2022), edited by Julie MacArthur and Maria Bargh.
  • “Just transition to climate resilient coastal communities in Aotearoa New Zealand” (2021). Policy Quarterly 17 (3): 23-30. https://ojs.victoria.ac.nz/pq/article/view/7129
  • Benjamin Dudley Tombs, Ben France-Hudson, Janet Stephenson, and Elisabeth Ellis, “Property Purgatory”  (2021). Policy Quarterly 17 (1), February 2021; pp. 50-56.
  • “Sectoral Responsibility for Climate Change: Is Aviation Exceptionalism Defensible?" In Climate Justice: Corporations, Regions, Cities, and Individuals (Routledge, 2020), edited by Jeremy Moss and Lachlan Umbers, chapter 4.
  • “Public Property, Collective Integrity, and Environmental Justice” (2020). Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2020.1744077.
  • “Introduction” to special issue on “Political Philosophy and What the People Think, by Avner de Shalit,” 2021. Australasian Philosophical Review 4.4. DOI: 10.1080/24740500.2021.1876410
  • Bioethics panel [Parke, E., Russell, R., Armstrong, D., Ellis, E., Hohneck, M., Iorns, C., Knight, J., Litten, K., MacDonald, E., Maclaurin, J., Speedy, C., Steeves, T., Watane, K., Wehi, P.] (2019). “Predator Free New Zealand: Social, Cultural, and Ethical Challenges.” BioHeritage Challenge. 26 pp.
  • “How Should the Risks of Sea Level Rise be Shared?” Working paper commissioned by the Deep South National Science Challenge. Submitted August 2018; published December 2018. 20,677 words. (link)
  • Higham, J.E.S., Ellis, E. & Maclaurin, J. (2018). “Tourist aviation emissions: A problem of collective action.” Journal of Travel Research (published online May 2018 in the JTR and the Foundations series). doi/10.1177/0047287518769764.
  • "Democracy as a Constraint and Possibility for Environmental Action," The Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 2016), edited by Teena Gabrielson, Cheryl Hall, John M. Meyer, and David Schlosberg.
  • "Kant's Political Philosophy," Oxford Bibliographies (2015).
  • The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons, Editor-in-Chief, Diana Coole, Elisabeth Ellis, and Kennan Ferguson, Associate Editors (John Wiley and Sons, 2015 [September 2014]). Eight volumes; 4360 pages; in print and online.
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  • Kant’s Political Theory: Interpretations and Applications (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012). Edited and with an introduction and bibliography by Elisabeth Ellis. Paperback edition, 2015.
  • “The Received Hobbes,” essay in a new edition of Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, Ian Shapiro, ed. (Yale University Press, 2010); pp. 481-518.
  • “Difficult Discoveries: Rousseauian Investigations of Love and Democracy," review essay in Political Theory 38, no. 5 (October 2010): 723-730.
  • Provisional Politics: Kantian Arguments in Policy Context (Yale University Press, 2008).
  • “Citizenship and Property Rights: A New Look at Social Contract Theory,” Journal of Politics 68 (3): 544-555 (August 2006).
  • Kant’s Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World (Yale University Press, 2005). Foundations of Political Theory, First-Book Prize (2007).
  • "Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)," in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons, ed., (John Wiley and Sons, 2015): 1983-1994. Published online September 2014: DOI: 10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0555.
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  • "Shapiro, Ian (1956--)," in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons, ed., (John Wiley and Sons, 2015): 3427–3434. Published online September 2014: DOI: 10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0934. Written with David Switzer (graduate student, Texas A&M University).
  • "Social Contract," in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Michael T. Gibbons, ed., (John Wiley and Sons, 2015): 3490–3493. Published online September 2014: DOI: 10.1002/9781118474396.wbept0949.
  • “Kant,” Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Mark Bevir, ed. (Sage, 2010): vol. 2, pp. 751-755.
  • “Julien Offray de la Mettrie,” in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, Manfred Kuehn and Heinner Klemme, eds. (Thoemmes Press, 2010): vol. 2, pp. 697-690.
  • “Ewald Friedrich, Baron von Hertzberg,” in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, Manfred Kuehn and Heinner Klemme, eds. (Thoemmes Press, 2010): vol. 2, pp. 498-499.
  • “Joseph Niklas, Imperial Count of Windischgrätz,” in the Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers, Manfred Kuehn and Heinner Klemme, eds. (Thoemmes Press, 2010): vol. 3, pp.1280-1281.
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  • “Provisionalism in the Study of Politics,” in Problems and Methods in the Study of Politics (Cambridge University Press, 2004), edited by Ian Shapiro, Rogers M. Smith, and Tarek E. Masoud: 350-377.
  • “Common Sense,” in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, et al. (NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004): 381-383.
  • “Modernity,” in the New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, et al. (NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004): 1473-1475.
  • “Immanuel Kant’s Two Theories of Civil Society,” in Frank Trentmann, ed., Paradoxes of Civil Society: New Perspectives on Modern German and British History (Providence: Berghahn Books, 2000; second edition, 2004): pp. 105-134.