Prof Albert Dzur

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Albert Dzur is a democratic theorist interested in citizen participation and power-sharing innovations in criminal justice, public administration, and education.

He is the author of Democracy Inside: Participatory Innovation in Unlikely Places (Oxford, 2019); Rebuilding Public Institutions Together: Professionals and Citizens in a Participatory Democracy (Cornell, 2017); Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury (Oxford, 2012); Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice (Penn State, 2008); and a co-editor, with Ian Loader and Richard Sparks, of Democratic Theory and Mass Incarceration (Oxford, 2016).

His interviews with innovative professionals in criminal justice and other fields appear in Boston Review, The Good Society, International Journal of Restorative Justice, where he is an Associate Editor, and National Civic Review, where he is a Contributing Editor.

He also serves on the editorial boards of the Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, and Democratic Theory. He is a Distinguished Research Professor in political science and philosophy at Bowling Green State University.