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Research

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My research interests, broadly construed, are in business ethics, political theory, and the history of political thought. My research to date has focused on the political theory of the corporation. Much of my research on this topic is synthesized in my first book, The Form of the Firm (Oxford University Press 2019) and my most recent Everyone's Business (co-authored with Amit Ron, University of Chicago Press 2024). This  is part of a more general interest I have in what social scientists sometimes refer to as "meso-level" institutions --those intermediary associations like corporations, unions, churches, and universities, that govern various parts of our social lives and structure our collective pursuits. My research has also considered how the specificity of such institutions affect our understanding of democracy, racial justice, labor relations, and free speech.
Scholarly Articles
  • K., Banerjee & A. Singer. 2025. "Mutual Engagement as Methodology: Joseph Carens and the Toronto School of Political Theory." Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy  https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2025.2489245 (Accepted Manuscript)
  • A Singer. 2024. “Racial Justice without Character: Business Ethics, Diversity Training, and Distributed Cognition.” Journal of Business Ethics Accepted for Publication
  • A Singer. 2024. “Can the Unfree be held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency” American Journal of Political Science 68 (3): 988-1001.
  • D Gilbert, A Rasche, M Schormair, and A Singer. 2023 “The Challenges and Prospects of Deliberative Democracy for Corporate Sustainability and Responsibility.” Business Ethics Quarterly 33(1): 1-25.
  • A Singer & A Ron. 2023. “The Social Subcontract: Business Ethics as Democratic Theory” Political Research Quarterly 76 (2): 654-666.
  • A Singer. 2022. “Can the Unfree be held Morally Responsible? A Douglassonian Conception of Freedom and Distributed Moral Agency” American Journal of Political Science. Published online, December 19, 2022.
  • A Singer. 2022. “What Sal Owes Mookie” Journal of Business Ethics. Published online December 17, 2022.
  • D Gindis & A Singer. 2022. “The Corporate Baby in the Bathwater: Why Proposals to Abolish Corporate Personhood Are Misguided.” Journal of Business Ethics 183: 983-997
  • A Kondo & A Singer. 2020. “Labor without Employment.” American Bar Association Journal of Labor and Employment Law 34 (3): 331-358.  
  • J Forestal & A Singer. 2020. “Social Media Ethics and the Politics of Information” Business Ethics Journal Review 8(6): 32-38.
  • A Singer & A Gini. 2020. “Why’d You Have to Choose Us? On Jews and Their Jokes.” The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook, 1(1):17-32.
  • A Singer & Amit Ron. 2020. “Prioritizing Democracy” Business Ethics Quarterly 30 (1): 139-153.
  • A Ron & A Singer. 2020. “Democracy, Corruption, and the Ethics of Business Lobbying,” Interest Groups and Advocacy 9: 38-56.
  • A Singer. 2019. “Toward a Pragmatist Approach to Corporate Personality and Responsibility: Why Democracy Matters.” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, 17: 795-810.
  • A Singer & H van der Ven. 2019. “Beyond Market, Firm, and State: Mapping the Ethics of Global Value Chains.” Business and Society Review 124 (3): 325-343.
  • A Singer. 2019. “The Corporation’s Governmental Provenance and its Significance” Economics & Philosophy 35 (2): 283-306.
  • A Singer & A Ron. 2018. “Models of Corporate Democracy: A Transnational Approach.” Global Constitutionalism 7 (3): 422-446
  • A Singer. 2018. “The Political Nature of the Firm and the Cost of Norms.” Journal of Politics 80 (3): 831-844
  • A Singer. 2018. “Gaus’s Choice: The Open Society as an Ideal.” Research & Politics January-March: 1-6.
  • A Singer. 2018. “Justice Failures: Efficiency, Equality, and the Corporation.” Journal of Business Ethics. 149 (1): 97-115.
  • K Banerjee & A Singer. 2018. “Race and the Meso-Level Sources of Domination.” Political Research Quarterly 71(1): 215 - 227
  • A Singer. 2017 “The Corporation as a Relational Entity.” Polity 49 (3), 328-351.
  • C Sabadoz & A Singer. 2017 “Talk Ain’t Cheap: Political CSR and the Limits of Deliberation” Business Ethics Quarterly 27 (2): 183-211
  • A Singer. 2015. “There is No Rawlsian Theory of Corporate Governance.” Business Ethics Quarterly. 25(1): 65-92.
  • A Singer. 2013.  “What is the best way to argue against the profit-maximization principle?” Business Ethics Journal Review 1(12): 76-81.
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Book Reviews
  • A Singer. 2021. “Review of The Work of Politics by Steven Klein and The Privatized State by Chiara Cordelli” Business Ethics Quarterly 31(3): 474-480.
  • A Singer. 2018. “Review of Firms as Political Entities by Isabelle Ferreras” Perspectives on Politics 16(3): 832-834.
  • A Singer. 2017. “Review of Private Government by Elizabeth Anderson.” LSE Review of Books, December 4, 2017.
  • A Singer. 2017. “Review of The Tyranny of the Ideal by Gerald Gaus.” Business Ethics Quarterly 27 (3): 466-469.
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Article Manuscripts in Preparation
  • “The Idea of Nonpublic Reason Revisited”
  • “Democracy at the Meso-Level: A Framework”
  • “Facebook's Oversight Board: Pluralist, Democratic, and Deliberative Perspectives”
  • “The Toronto School of Political Theory”
  • "Comedy as a Vocation"
  • “The Ethea of Free Speech”