Secrets and Democracy:
From Arcana Imperii to Wikileaks

As governments actively collect and analyze more information about their populations than ever before, citizens struggle to defend their privacy and to determine which state secrets are legitimate and which are not. Jurisdictional complexity, the inability of representatives to gain access to relevant information, citizens' relative lack of expertise, and the partisanship that exists between different government agencies make oversight difficult. Secrets and Democracy considers afresh the role that secrets play within liberal democracies and the impact this has on the public's 'right to know,' the individual's 'right to privacy,' and the government's penchant for secrecy and data collection. Now, perhaps more than ever, secrecy (and the disclosure of secrets) is in the public eye thanks to the phenomenon of WikiLeaks. However, this book places WikiLeaks in the context of centuries-old discussion concerning the necessity of secrecy, and contemporary debate concerning the relative merits of privacy, openness, transparency, and accountability.


Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 

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Civil Disobedience: 
(Un)Common sense in mass democracies

What role might civil disobedience play in the politics of representative democracies as power ‘leaks’ from the nation state? If traditional politics has surrendered to the interests of global corporations what are the consequences? Quill proposes a reappraisal of civil disobedience and civil obedience in order to address these and other questions.

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Liberty After Liberalism:
Civic-Republicanism in a Global Age

Liberty after Liberalism frees the concept of the active citizen from both the territorial confines of the nation-state and the limits imposed by republican, city-state models.  Quill advances a theory of global republicanism, one that is able to respond directly to the changing realities of political life. By adopting a "publicly ironic" approach to politics, Quill revives the idea of public freedom within a global context thereby providing an important supplement to contemporary theories of cosmopolitan democracy.


Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Articles

"Silicon Valley's Basic Income" (with Professor Hasmet Uluorta)
(September 2017)

"Technological Conspiracies"
 Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society, 28(1) (2016)  

"Tea with Zizek" (with Professor Hasmet Uluorta)
​Psychotherapy and Politics International, 13(3) (2015)

"Technological Conspiracies and Public Engagement"
Blog for the Crick Centre, University of Sheffield (July 2015)

"Our love of technology risks becoming a quiet conspiracy against ourselves"
Invited Blog for The Conversation (June 2015)

"Beyond Security v. Liberty: Leaking in Managed Democracies"
Invited Blog for the Political Studies Association Conference, Manchester U.K. (April 2014)

"Should a Communitarian Ethic Be Taught? A Reply to Etzioni"
Society (July 2014)

“The Disappearance of Adulthood”
Studies in the Philosophy of Education (July 2011, vol. 30, 4, 327-341 [lead article])

“Political Hypocrisy and the Role of Professionals” 
International Journal of Applied Philosophy (Fall 2010, Vol. 24, 2, 197-210)

“Pilot implementation of an interdisciplinary course on climate solutions”
Special Edition of the International Journal of Engineering Education (May-June, 2010, 26, 2,)

“After Philia? Friendship, the Market, and Late Modernity”
The Journal of Philosophy in the Contemporary World (Fall 2009, 16, 2, 32-43)

“Augustine, Arendt, and Anthropy” (with Barry Clarke)
Sophia: International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, Metaphysical Theology and Ethics (Aug 2009, 48, 3, 253-265)

“Ethics and Public Service: Loyalty Intelligently Bestowed”
American Review of Public Administration (May 2009, 39, 3, 215-224 [lead article])

“In Pursuit of the Knowledge Worker: Educating for World Risk Society” (with Hasmet Uluorta)
International Studies in the Sociology of Education (March 2009, 19, 1, 37-51)