Shai Agmon

Shai Agmon
University of Oxford | OX · Department of Politics and International Relations

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
I joined New College at the University of Oxford as the Rank-Manning Junior Research Fellow in Social Sciences in October 2022. In my research I explore the justifications of real-life institutional designs, and their relationship with central issues in political philosophy such as democracy, equality, and freedom. My research interests include democratic theory, philosophy of competition, the normative limits of markets and legal philosophy.
Education
September 2015 - October 2016
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Field of study
  • Philosophy and Public Policy
January 2014 - April 2014
New York University
Field of study
  • Paths to Peace Program
September 2012 - September 2017
Tel Aviv University
Field of study
  • Law

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Publications (7)
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Thomas Jefferson’s famous proposal, whereby a state’s constitution should be re-enacted every 19 years by a majority vote, purports to solve the intergenerational problem caused by perpetual constitutions: namely that laws which were enacted by people who are already dead bind living citizens without their consent. I argue that the model fails to f...
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A well-known objection to prioritarianism, famously levelled by Mike Otsuka and Alex Voorhoeve, is that it wrongly ignores the unity of the individual in treating intra-personal cases like inter-personal cases. In this paper we accept that there should be a moral shift between these cases, but argue that this is because autonomy is a relevant consi...
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Despite being largely overlooked in the literature, Israel provides a rare example of what a full decade of twenty-first century populism in power looks like. Based on an examination of rhetoric and policymaking between 2009 and 2019, this article brings the writing on the subject up to date and highlights the unique traits of Israeli populism. In...
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While moral arguments for limiting market expansionism proliferate, a fundamental question has been left unanswered: the moral limits of what, exactly? Moral Limits of Markets (MLM) theorists tend to employ different terms – markets, putting a price tag, buying and selling – interchangeably and inconsistently to describe the phenomenon they are tro...
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I offer a novel distinction between two concepts of competition. The first, parallel competition, is designed to create separate pathways for each competitor wherein they can maximize their performance. The second, friction competition, is designed to facilitate a clash between competitors. Each concept is utilized as an institutional mechanism to...
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The adversarial legal system is traditionally praised for its normative appeal: it protects individual rights; ensures an equal, impartial, and consistent application of the law; and, most importantly, its competitive structure facilitates the discovery of truth – both in terms of the facts, and in terms of the correct interpretation of the law. At...

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