Lee Ward
Professor of Political Science
Dr. Lee Ward is Professor of Political Science at Baylor University. Before joining Baylor in 2017 he was Alpha Sigma Nu Distinguished Professor of Political Science in Campion College at the University of Regina. He also previously taught as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and was the Bradley Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Program in Constitutional Government at Harvard University. He received a BA from the University of Toronto, an MA from Brock University and a PhD from Fordham University in New York City. He is the author of The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America (Cambridge, 2004), John Locke and Modern Life (Cambridge, 2010), Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson (Palgrave McMillan, 2014) and is editor of John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government (Hackett Publishing, 2016) and Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents: Rethinking Politics in the Age of Brexit and Trump (Lexington Books, 2020). He also co-edited with Dr. Ann Ward The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism (Ashgate Publishing, 2009), and Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert (University of Notre Dame Press, 2013). He has published articles on John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Aristotle, Montesquieu, Algernon Sidney, Plato, Baruch Spinoza, Rousseau, Irish republicanism, John Rawls, Jürgen Habermas, Carl Schmitt, and John Stuart Mill that have appeared in several leading academic journals including the American Political Science Review, the Canadian Journal of Political Science, Publius: A Journal of Federalism, The Journal of Moral Philosophy, the American Journal of Political Science, Ratio Juris: An International Journal of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, The International Philosophical Quarterly, Perspectives on Political Science, American Political Thought, Political Research Quarterly, The Political Science Reviewer, The Review of Politics, Political Theology, and The History of Education Quarterly.
Courses at Baylor
Undergraduate
PSC 2302 American Constitutional Development
PSC 2343 Western Political Thought
PSC 3353 American Political Thought
PSC 3363 Western Political Thought: Classical and Medieval
PSC 3373 Western Political Thought: Modern
PSC 4373 British Liberal Tradition
PSC 4383 Contemporary Political Theory
Graduate Courses Taught:
PSC 5310 American Political Thought
PSC 5311 Locke and Rousseau on Education
PSC 5311 The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
PSC 5311 Seminar on Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
PSC 5311 The Political Philosophy of Montesquieu
PSC 5340 The American Founding
Selected Publications
BOOKS
Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2022. (Paperback published 2023).
Modern Democracy and the Theological-Political Problem in Spinoza, Rousseau, and Jefferson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan Publishers, 2014.
John Locke and Modern Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. (Paperback published 2010).
EDITED VOLUMES
John Locke, Two Treatises of Government. Edited, and Introductory Essay and Notes by Lee Ward. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2016.
Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine Zuckert and Michael Zuckert. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. (Co-edited with Ann Ward)
The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2009. (Co-edited with Ann Ward)
REFEREED ARTICLES
“Response to Critics: Symposium on Lee Ward’s Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests,” The Political Science Reviewer, Volume 47, No. 1 (Summer) 2023: 511-528.
“John Stuart Mill on the Political Significance of Higher Education,” History of Education Quarterly, Vol. 63, No. 3 (August) 2023: 336-356 (doi.org/10.1017/heq.2023.22)
“Thomas Paine on Agrarian Justice and Reparations,” The Political Science Reviewer, Volume 46, No. 2 (Summer) 2022: 25-56.
“Political Theology and Constitutionalism in Carl Schmitt and Jürgen Habermas,” Political Theology. Vol. 23, No. 3 (Summer) 2022: 236-242 (published online April 30, 2022 DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2022.2071792).
“Trust and Distributive Justice in John Locke’s Politics of Money,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 83, No. 4 (Fall) 2021: 510-532 (doi.org/10.1017/S0034670521000450 published online August 24)
“Equity and Political Economy in Thomas Hobbes,” American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 64, No. 4 (October) 2020: 823-835.
“Rekindling ‘Democratic Embers’: Rawls and Habermas on Public Reason,” The European Legacy: Special Issue on Reconsidering Democracy. Vol. 24. Nos. 7-8 (December) 2019 (DOI: 10.1080/10848770.2019.1648964, first published online August 15, 2019).
“Thomas Hobbes and John Locke on a Liberal Right of Secession,” Political Research Quarterly. Vol. 70, No.4 (December) 2017: 876-88 (first published online June 28, 2017).
“Republican Political Theory and Irish Nationalism” The European Legacy, Vol. 21, No. 1 (February) 2016: 19-37.
“James Otis and the Americanization of John Locke,” American Political Thought, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring) 2015: 181-202.
“Gods would be needed to give men Laws: Rousseau on the Modern Republican Legislator,” Perspectives on Political Science. Vol. 43, No. 1 (January) 2014: 41-51.
“The Relation between Politics and Philosophy in Plato’s Apology of Socrates,” International Philosophical Quarterly. Vol. 49, No. 4 (December) 2009: 501-19.
“A Note on a Note on Locke’s ‘great art of government’.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. Vol. 42, No. 2 (June) 2009: 521-23.
“Locke on Punishment, Property, and Moral Knowledge,” Journal of Moral Philosophy. Vol. 6, No. 2 (April) 2009: 218-244.
“Montesquieu on Federalism and Anglo-Gothic Constitutionalism.” Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Vol. 37, No. 4 (Fall) 2007: 551-577.
“Locke on the Moral Basis of International Relations.” American Journal of Political Science. Vol. 50, no. 3 (July) 2006: 691-705.
“Locke on Executive Power and Liberal Constitutionalism.” Canadian Journal of Political Science. Vol. 38, No. 3, (September) 2005: 719-744.
“Nobility and Necessity: The Problem of Courage in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics.” American Political Science Review. Vol. 95, No. 1, (March) 2001: 71-83.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES:
“Female Modesty and the Spirit of Commerce in Montesquieu’s Persian Letters” in The Spirit of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters. Constantine Vassiliou, Jeffrey Church, Alin Fumerescu, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2023): 139-158.
“Academic Freedom and the Future of the Liberal Arts,” in Liberal Education and Citizenship in a Self-Governing Republic. Justin Dyer and Constantine Vassiliou, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press (2023): 289-305.
“Whit, Woody, Barcelona: Love and Friendship in Walt Whitman’s Barcelona and Woody Allen’s Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona” co-authored with Ann Ward in Love’s Authority: Festschrift in Honor of Mary Nichols. Mathew Dinan, Paul Kirkland, Denise Schaefer, Natalie Taylor, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2021): 65-84.
“Thomas Jefferson on Democracy,” in Democracy and the History of Political Thought. Steve Block, Patrick Cain, Stephen Sims, eds. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2021): 313-330.
“Globalism and Democracy in James Tully’s Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Imperialism,” in Cosmopolitanism and its Discontents: Rethinking Politics in the Age of Brexit and Trump. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2020): 163-178.
“Dutch and German Theories of Federalism in the Seventeenth Century,” in Theories of Modern Federalism, Skadi Siiri Krause, editor. Badean-Baden, Germany: Nomos Publishing (2019): 29-48.
“Democracy and the Problem of Constitutional Change in Canada,” In Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics. David McGrane and Neil Hibbert, editors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2019): 242-64.
“Shakespeare’s Critique of Philosopher Kings in Love’s Labour’s Lost,” In Writing the Poetic Soul of Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Michael Davis. South Bend, IN: St Augustine’s Press (2019): 250-268.
“The Influence of John Locke on Rousseau” in The Rousseauian Mind, Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly, editors. Abingdon, UK: Routledge Publishing (2019): 35-45.
“Hobbes on Sovereign Authorization and the Problem of Liberal Nationalism." Classical Rationalism and the Politics of Europe, Ann Ward, ed. Newcastle-on-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press (2017): 151-73.
“Civil Religion, Civic Republicanism and Enlightenment in Rousseau.” In Civic Republicanism, Enlightenment and Modernity: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics. Geoffrey Kellow and Neven Brady Leddy, editors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (2016): 246-268.
“Rousseau’s Profession of Faith of the Savoyard Vicar as Democratic Narrative,” In Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue. Ann Ward, editor. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press (2013): 104-121.
“Benedict Spinoza and the Problem of Theocracy.” Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine and Michael Zuckert. (Co-edited with Ann Ward). South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press (2013): 132-52.
“John Locke and the Problematic Relation between Natural and Moral Philosophy.” Matter and Form: From Natural Science to Political Philosophy. Ann Ward, Editor. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2009): 179-194.
“Early Dutch and German Federal Theory: Spinoza, Hugo, and Leibniz.” Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism. Ann Ward and Lee Ward, Editors. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, (2009): 91-106.
"The Natural Rights Family: Locke on Women, Nature, and the Problem of Patriarchy." Nature, Woman, and the Art of Politics. Eduardo Velasquez, Editor. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2000): 149-179.