Publications

Books:

  • Volacu, Alexandru (forthcoming), Limitele electoratului. Cine ar trebui sa poata vota intr-o democratie? [The Limits of the Electorate. Who Should Be Enfranchised in a Democracy?], Institutul European, Iasi.
  • Volacu, Alexandru, Cutaș, Daniela, Miroiu, Adrian (eds.) (2021), Alegeri morale. Teme actuale de etică aplicată [Moral Choices. Current Topics in Applied Ethics], Polirom, Iași.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2019), Avem datoria de a vota? [Do We Have a Duty to Vote?], Institutul European, Iași.
  • Kissane, Dylan, Volacu, Alexandru (eds.) (2015), Modern Dilemmas: Understanding Collective Action in the 21st Century, Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart.
  • Ungureanu, Mihai, Volacu, Alexandru, Roescu, Andra (2015), Alegere raţională şi comportament electoral [Rational Choice and Electoral Behaviour], Tritonic, Bucharest.

Book chapters (selection):

  • Volacu, Alexandru (forthcoming), „Age and the Voting-Driving Analogy”, in A. Gosseries and G. Bognar (eds.), Ageing Without Ageism: Conceptual Puzzles and Policy Proposals, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2021), “Voting, Ethics of”, in H. LaFollette (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2021), „Should We Hold Elections During a Pandemic?”, in F. Niker and A. Bhattacharya (eds.), Political Philosophy in a Pandemic, Bloomsbury Academic Press, London, pp. 137-152.
  • Lever, Annabelle, Volacu, Alexandru (2018), “Should Voting Be Compulsory? Democracy and the Ethics of Voting”, in A. Lever and A. Poama (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy, Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 242-254.

Articles (selection):

  • Poama, Andrei, Volacu, Alexandru (2021), “Too Old to Vote? A Democratic Analysis of Age-Weighted Voting”, European Journal of Political Theory, DOI: 10.1177/14748851211062604.
  • Volacu, Alexandru, Terteleac, Vlad (2021), “Mitigating the Costs of Departure. Brain drain, Disadvantage and Fair Burden-sharing”, Ethics and Global Politics, 14 (3), pp. 127-141.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2021), “Justice, Symmetry, and Voting Rights Ceilings”, Theoria, 87 (3), pp. 643-658.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2020), “Democracy and Compulsory Voting”, Political Research Quarterly, 73 (2), pp. 454-463.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2019), “Electoral Quid pro Quo: A Defence of Barter Markets in Votes”, Journal of Applied Philosophy, 36 (5), pp.769-784.  
  • Volacu, Alexandru, Dumitru, Adelin (2019), “Assessing Non-intrinsic Limitarianism”, Philosophia, 47 (1), pp.249-264.   
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2018), “Bridging Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory”, Political Studies, 66 (4), pp. 887-902.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2018), “Justice, Efficiency, and the New Public Management”, Australian Journal of Public Administration, 77 (3), pp.404-414.    
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2018), “Preferences, Reasoning Errors, and Resource Egalitarianism”, Philosophical Studies, 175 (8), pp. 1851–1870.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2018), “A Priori Voting Power Distribution under Contemporary Security Council Reform Proposals”, Journal of International Relations and Development, 21 (2), pp. 247–274.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2017), “Prioritarianism and Other-Regarding Decision-Making under Risk”, Ethical Perspectives, 24 (2), pp.199-224.
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2017), “Heterogeneous Rationality and Reasonable Disagreement in the Original Position”, Journal of Philosophical Research, 42, pp. 131-148.  
  • Volacu, Alexandru (2017), “Maximization, Slotean Satisficing and Theories of Sufficientarian Justice”, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 17 (1), pp.73-90.
  • Volacu, Alexandru, Derviş, Oana-Alexandra (2016), “Pluralist Welfare Egalitarianism and the Expensive Tastes Objection”, Contemporary Political Theory, 15 (3), pp.285-303.

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