Danielle Charette James

Below are links to my published academic articles and book chapters. A full CV is available here.

“David Hume and the Artifice of Allegiance,” Oxford Handbook of Political Obligation, ed. George Klosko (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), 93-102

“Reconstructing Oceana: Hume’s ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’,” in Hume’s ‘Essays’: A Critical Guide, eds. Felix Waldmann and Max Skjönsberg (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025), 143-61

“David Hume and the Politics of Slavery,” Political Studies 72, no. 3 (2024): 862-82

“Petrarch’s Literary Empire,” Political Science Reviewer 47, no. 2 (2023): 57-85

“Hume’s ‘Idea of a Perfect Commonwealth’ and Scottish Political Thought of the 1790s,” History of European Ideas 48, no. 1 (2022): 78-96

“Death and Taxes in Machiavelli’s Florentine State,” in People Power: Popular Sovereignty from Machiavelli to Modernity, eds. Christopher Barker and Robert Ingram (Manchester University Press, 2022), 41-58

“David Hume’s Balancing Act: The Political Discourses and the Sinews of War,” American Political Science Review 115, no. 1 (2021): 69-81

“State of the Field: The History of Political Thought,” History 105, no. 366 (2020): 470-83. Co-authored with Max Skjönsberg

“Political Theory and American Literature: A Guide through the Archive,” Political Theory (online, 2020)

“A Tribune Named Niccolò: Petrarchan revolutionaries and humanist failures in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories,” History of European Ideas 44, no. 8 (2018): 1046-62. Co-authored with Michael Darmiento

“Catilinarian Cadences in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories,” History of Political Thought 39, no. 3 (2018): 439-64