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Loren King is an Associate Professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in the Department of Political Science. His research spans Political Theory, Justice, Rationality, and Urban Studies. A leading scholar in normative political theory, he critiques methodological assumptions in debates about ideal vs. nonideal theorizing.
- Key focus areas: Federalism, Global Justice, Urban Citizenship, and Deliberative Democracy
- Recent work (2025) re-examines Rawls' constructivist method, arguing for fluid movement between ideal and nonideal considerations
Publications address democratic electoral reform (2016), urban swimming as flâneurie (2023), and epigenetics in political science (2014). His 2019 analysis of James Scott's 'Seeing Like a State' highlights tensions between state rationalization and local knowledge.
Teaching includes graduate statistics seminars (2014), where he applies Gary King's methodological approaches. Active in urban political theory, he contributes to debates about Henri Lefebvre's 'Right to the City' (2019) and polycentric city governance (2004).
