Rate My Professor Michael Goodhart

Goodhart's research centers on democracy, human rights, justice and injustice, emancipatory political struggles, political theory, ethics, responsibility, and neoliberalism. He is the author of Injustice: Political Theory for the Real World (Oxford University Press, 2018) and Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization (Routledge, 2005). He contributed as editor to Human Rights: Theory and Practice (Oxford University Press, editions 2009, 2012, 2016, 2022) and co-edited Social Movements and World-System Transformation (Routledge, 2017) with Jackie Smith, Patrick Manning, and John Markoff, as well as Human Rights in the 21st Century: Continuity and Change since 9/11 (Palgrave, 2011). Notable articles include 'Climate Change and the Politics of Responsibility' in Perspectives on Politics (2023) and 'Liberal Pragmatism and Liberal Fantasy in the Era of Backlash Politics' in Political Science Quarterly (2023). He has lectured widely in North America and internationally, is an affiliate of the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut and the Center for Ethics and Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, and serves as President of the board of directors of The Global Switchboard, promoting human rights and social justice in the Pittsburgh region. Currently, he is completing a book manuscript titled The Enigma of Human Rights.