Alex Tuckness
Associate Professor
Employment
· Associate Professor,
· Director of the Public Policy and Administration Program, 2006-2008 and Director of Graduate Education, 2007-2008.
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Visiting Fellow in Ethics,
· Assistant Professor,
Education
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Awards and
Fellowships
· Faculty Fellow in Ethics at
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· ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, 2003. A university-wide teaching award recognizing overall excellence in teaching and conferring a one-time stipend of $1000. Awarded to two faculty members annually.
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Given annually to
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· Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship. 1997-98.
Supports graduate study for 10-12
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Supports one year of study and travel by one student from each institution.
· Honorary Mellon Fellow in the Humanities. 1994-95.
Supports one year of graduate study in the humanities, financial award declined.
· National Champion, Speech and Debate. 1990.
National Champion
in Foreign Extemp, National Forensics League.
Grants
· ISU Miller Teaching Fellowship, 2002-2003. $8,000 grant for pilot program in which
advanced undergraduates lead discussions sections in introductory classes as
part of a Capstone Project Course.
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Refereed Publications
Book
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Locke and the
Legislative Point of View: Toleration, Contested Principles and Law. Princeton:
Articles
· “The Coherence of a Mind: John Locke and the Law of Nature,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, January 1999, pp. 73-90.
· “Legislation and Non-neutral Principles: A Lockean Approach,” Journal of Political Philosophy, September 2000, pp. 363-378.
· “Rethinking the Intolerant Locke,” American Journal of Political Science, April 2002, pp. 288-298.
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“Discourses of Resistance: Political Argument in the American Revolution.” Journal of the History of Ideas, October, 2003, pp. 547-564.
· “John Locke’s Political Philosophy” for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005 (updated periodically).
· “Locke’s Main Argument for Toleration” Nomos (Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy), vol. 48, 2008, pp. 114-138.
· “John Locke and Public Administration,” Administration & Society, vol. 40, May 2008, pp. 253 - 270.
· Punishment, Property, and the Limits of Altruism: Locke’s International Asymmetry. American Political Science Review, forthcoming.
Book Chapter
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“The
Conference Papers:
· “Community and Conflict in John Locke’s Theory of Punishment,” Western Political Science Association, March 2008.
· “Everyone Does It: A Normative Analysis for Public Administrators,” American Society for Public Administration, March 2007.
· “State Consent and the Obligation to Obey International
Law”
· “Non-ideal Theory and Justice.” Association for Political Theory Conference, October 2004.
· “Pragmatism and Universality in Grotius and Hume.” Midwest Political Science Association, 2004 (informal roundtable presentation).
· “The International Criminal Court and
the Demands of Impartiality.”
· “The
· “Non-intervention in a Non-ideal
World,” American Political Science Association Conference,
· “Rethinking Toleration and Human Rights,” Midwest
Political Science Association, Chicago, to be presented April,
2002.
· “Locke and Legislative Consent,”
· “The Power of Words and Swords: John
Locke and the Law of Opinion,” American Political Science Association
Conference,
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“Locke, Non-neutral Principles, and the Use of Force,”
American Political Science Association Conference,
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“Judges in the State of
Courses Taught 1999-2008
· Political Science 230 Introduction to Law and
Politics
· Political Science 235 Introduction to Ethics and
Politics
· Political Science 421 Constitutional Freedoms
· Political Science 422 International Law
· Political Science 430 Western Political Thought:
Plato to Machiavelli
· Political Science 431/531 Modern Political Thought
· Political Science 433 American Political Thought
· Political Science 480/580 Ethics and Public Affairs
· Political Science 490 (Various topics including Toleration, Just War, Genocide, and Natural Law)
· Political Science 495 Senior Project Course
· Political Science 571 Organizational Theory in the Public Sector
· Political Science 578X Ethics and Public Administration
Service:
Professional Service
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Section Head at the
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Reviewer for
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Reviewer for
· Reviewer for the American Political Science Review.
· Reviewer for the American Journal of Political Science
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Reviewer for Perspectives on Politics
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Reviewer for Political Theory
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Reviewer for Canadian Journal of
Political Science
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Respondent to Jeremy Waldron at
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Discussant for a paper by Mathias Risse
on International Distributive Justice at
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Panel Discussant, “Hobbes,” American Political Science Association,
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Panel Discussant, “Political Ethics and the Structure of Political Society,”
American Political Science Association,
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Panel Chair, “Locke,” Midwest Political Science Association,
Institutional Service
· MPA Committee (2006-Present)
· Faculty Senate (2008-Present)
· Political Science International Relations Search Committee (2008)
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Faculty Advisor for Salt Company Student Fellowship and
Areopagus (2008-Present).
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Director of Graduate Education (2007-2008)
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Director of the Public Policy and Administration Program, (2006-2008)
· Political Science Undergraduate Committee Chair (2005-2006)
· LAS Diversity Committee (2005-2006)
· Political Science Awards Committee Chair (2004-2005, 2008-2009)
· Social Movements Search Committee Chair (2005-2006)
· Political Science Undergraduate Committee (1999-2006)
· Political Science Comparative Politics Search Committee (1999 and 2003)
· Latino Studies/Political Science Search Committee (2003).
· Faculty Advisor Political Science Club (2000-2003),
· Faculty Advisor Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society (2000-2003, · Faculty Advisor Mock Trial Team (2001-2003)
· Faculty Advisor Truth Bucket (2002-2003)