Andrew Stark
Bio
Andrew Stark is a Professor of Strategic Management in the Department of Management at the University of Toronto-Scarborough, with cross-appointments to the Strategic Management area at Rotman and Department of Political Science. Andrew draws on normative theory – political, moral and legal theory – to analyze controversial public issues. He is the author of: Conflict of Interest in American Public Life (Harvard University Press, 2000), The Limits of Medicine (Cambridge University Press, 2006), Drawing the Line: Public and Private in America (Brookings Institution Press, 2010), and The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death (Yale University Press, 2016). His articles have appeared in American Political Science Review, Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, among others.
Other Info
Op- eds in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post; essays and reviews in The New Republic, the Times Literary Supplement, Saturday Night, the Public Interest and other periodicals
Academic Positions
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1996-2001
Associate Professor, University of Toronto
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1992-1996
Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
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1990-1991
Guest Scholar, Brookings Institution
Non-Academic Positions
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1985-1989
Policy Advisor, Office of the Prime Minister of Canada
Selected Publications - Papers
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Bridges between Wedges and Frames: Outreach and Compromise in American Political Discourse
Andrew Stark
American Political Science Review
Issue:forthcoming
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Value, Externalities, and the Boundaries of the Market
Andrew Stark
Journal of Social Philosophy
Issue:Summer
2020
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Oh, Canada! (review essay on recent books about Canadian politics),
Andrew Stark
New York Review of Books
Issue:July 19
2018
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The Trolley’s Last Stop Before Consequentialism: Exploring the Terrain
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
Issue:October
2017
Pages: 1021-1035
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Inverting Donaldson's Framework: An Approach to International Conflicts of Cultural and Economics Norms
Business Ethics Quarterly
Issue:October
2015
Pages: 535-558
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Charting a Democratic Future in China
Dissent
Issue:Summer
2012
Pages: 18-24
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Global Justice, Historial Justice: Looking at the Two Debates in Tandem
Political Theory
Issue:October
2012
Pages: 543-572
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The Distinction Between Public, Nonprofit and For-Profit: Revisiting the 'Core Legal' Approach
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
Issue:January
2011
Pages: 3-26
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Business in Politics: Lobbying and Corporate Campaign Contributions
in George Brenkert and Tom Beauchamp, eds., Oxford Handbook of Business Ethics, Oxford University Press
2009
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The Consensus School, Its Critics, and Welfare Policy: A Study of American Political Discourse
Journal of Politics
2009
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Benefit versus Numbers versus Helping the Worst-Off: An Alternative to the Prevalent Approach to the Just Distribution of Resources
Utilitas
2008
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Canada's Upside-Down World of Public-Sector Ethics
International Public Management Journal
2006
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Forever or Not
Wilson Quarterly
2006
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In Sickness and in Health: What to do About Private Health Insurance in America
Dissent
2005
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Why Are Some Conflicts of Interest In Medicine So Uniquely Vexing
in Conflict of Interest: Challenges and Solutions in Business, Law, Medicine and Public Policy, ed. Don Moore, Daylian M. Cain, Max Bazerman and George Loewenstein
Cambridge University Press
2005
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Getting the Health Care Debate Right
Public Interest
2003
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The Double Irony of Health Insurance Regulation in America
Society
2003
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What's Natural? Touring the Boundaries of Medical Necessity
Wilson Quarterly
2003
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Beyond Choice: Rethinking the Post-Rawlsian Debate Over Egalitarian Justice
Political Theory
Issue:February
2002
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What is the New Public Management?
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory
2002
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What's Wrong with Private Funding for Public Schools?
Dissent
Issue:Winter
2001
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America, the Gated?
Wilson Quarterly
Issue:Winter
1998
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Beyond Quid Pro Quo: What's Wrong with Private Gain from Public Office?
American Political Science Review
Issue:March
1997
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Limousine Liberals, Welfare Conservatives: On Belief, Interest and Inconsistency in Democratic Discourse
Political Theory
Issue:August
1997
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What is a Balanced Committee? Democratic Theory, Public Law and the Question of Fair Representation on Quasi- Legislative Bodies
NOMOS (Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy), (Eds) W. Kymlicka and I. Shapiro
1997
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The Appearance of Official Impropriety and the Concept of Political Crime
Ethics
Issue:January
1995
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What's the Matter with Business Ethics?
Harvard Business Review
Issue:May/June
1993
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Corporate Electoral Activity, Constitutional Discourse and the Conceptions of the Individual
American Political Science Review
Issue:September
1992
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English-Canadian Opposition to Quebec Nationalism
in R.K. Weaver (Ed.), The Collapse of Canada? (Brookings Institution)
1992
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'Political Discourse' Analysis and the Debate over Canada's Lobbying Legislation
Canadian Journal of Political Science
Issue:September
1992
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Public-Sector Conflict-of-Interest in Canada and the U.S.A.: Differences in Understanding and Approach
Public Administration Review
Issue:September/October
1992
Selected Publications - Books and Chapters
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The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death
Yale University Press
2016
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Drawing the Line: Public and Private in America
Brookings Institution Press
2010
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The Limits of Medicine
Cambridge University Press
2006
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Conflict of Interest in the Professions
(edited with Michael Davis)
New York: Oxford University Press
2001
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Conflict of Interest in American Public Life
Harvard University Press
2000
Research and Teaching Interests
Teaches courses in Business-Government Relations and Management Ethics. Research interests include business, government and medical ethics, corporate governance, business-government relations, public administration and public policy in the U.S. and Canada.
Honors and Awards
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2011-2012
Fulbright Senior Research Scholar Award,
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1994-1995
Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washington, D.C.
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1991-1992
Fellow, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions