Josiah Ober

Josiah Ober is Mitsotakis Professor of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He specializes in ancient and modern political theory and history. His most recent books are The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason (University of California Press, 2022), Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practice (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and (with Brook Manville) The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives (Princeton University Press 2023). His ongoing work focuses on rationality (ancient and modern), the theory and practice of democracy, and the politics of knowledge and innovation. He is author or co-​author of about 100 articles and chapters and several other books, including Democracy and Knowledge (2008) and The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (2015).