麻豆传媒

Dr Andrew Walton is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at 麻豆传媒.

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Media

• Blog: justice-everywhere.org

Affiliations

• Associate Member, Centre for Ethics, Law, and Public Affairs, University of Warwick
• Research Fellow, Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (Genève)

Previous positions

• Visiting Associate Professor, University of Warwick
• Research Fellow, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
• Visiting Scholar, Lund University
• Assistant Professor in Political Theory, University of St. Gallen
• Teaching Fellow, University College London

Qualifications

• BA History & Politics, University of Warwick
• MA Globalisation & Development, University of Warwick
• PhD Political Theory, University of Warwick

Research Interests

• Moral analysis in public policy
• Housing supply and regulation
• Residential and community integration
• Cultural representation and public spaces
• Animal rights and plant-based diets
• Trade justice and economic ethics
• Liberal-egalitarian and socialist thought

Current Work

The current focus of my research is the use of methods and ideas drawn from moral and political philosophy to inform debate on a range of contemporary policy issues, particularly around housing and communities and the promotion of plant-based diets. I have two ongoing projects in this area and a monograph that introduces the general approach:

Inequalities and Urban Spaces - In this research, I explore questions of justice that arise in cities and greater urban areas. At the project's centre is an account of inequality that emphasises (1) improving the prospects of the least-advantaged and (2) enhancing the role of under-represented groups in the evolving cultural environment. This framework permeates thinking in three areas of policy and practice. The first is housing, where it has implications for the types and geographical spread of accommodation, how to ensure adequate and affordable shelter for all, and what kinds of building regulation are suitable for high-density environments. The second is neighbourhoods and communities, where it has implications for advancing residential integration through processes that avoid burdening the disadvantaged with transitional costs or stifling their cultural context. The third is public spaces, where it provides a basis for affirmative action in roles connected to urban design and local politics. Recent and ongoing outputs in this area:

• '' (with Hwa Young Kim), Political Philosophy, 3:1 (2026)
• '' (with Hwa Young Kim), British Journal of Political Science, 53:2 (2023) 
• Justice in the City (monograph under preparation)

Justice and Plant-Based Diets - In this research, I explore arguments for public institutions promoting plant-based diets, with a particular emphasis on the climate change and animal welfare arguments for doing so. One branch of this research looks broadly at public institutions, considering their capacity to affect change and as branches of the state and whether the promotion of plant-based diets is compatible with demands of liberal neutrality and equal treamtment. Another branch focuses specifically on the role of schools educating students about plant-based diets and their role intervening to help develop citizens with a sense of justice. Recent work in this area:

• ' (with Derek Bell, Meera Inglis, and Johannes Kniess), Climate Policy (2025)

Moral Analysis in Public Policy - The approach to these research projects rests on a framework for using the tools of moral and political philosophy in assessing public policy that I developed with co-authors Will Abel, Elizabeth Kahn, and Tom Parr:

•  (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021) 

Recent work

Justice and trade - In this research, I explore how we should conceptualise the idea of 'trade justice'. I argue that we that we should reason about 'trade justice' in a holistic sense, understanding and applying moral principles to the domain of trade as part of an 'institutional package', both in the regulation of international trade and individual ethics. Recent publications include:

• '', Journal of Political Philosophy, 28:1 (2020)
• '', in Annabelle Lever & Andrei Poama (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy (Oxford: Routledge, 2018)
• '', CRISPP, 18:6 (2015)
• '', Moral Philosophy and Politics, 1:2 (2014)
• '' (with Lisa Herzog), Ethics and Global Politics, 7:2 (2014)
• '', Political Studies, 61:3 (2013)
• '', Utilitas, 24:1 (2012)

Postgraduate supervision

I would be interested in supervising postgraduate research in any of the areas listed under my research interests and more generally across the terrain of domestic or global political philosophy 

Undergraduate Teaching 

POL2090: Equality, Diversity, & Inclusion: Social Issues in Contemporary Political Philosophy

Postgraduate Teaching

POL8068: The Moral Limits of the Market: Public Policy Projects

• Articles

  • Kim HY, Walton A. . Political Philosophy 2026, 3(1), 136-166.
  • Bell D, Inglis MI, Kniess J, Walton A. . Climate Policy 2025, E-pub ahead of print.
  • Kim HY, Walton A. . British Journal of Political Science 2022, 53(2), 613-628.
  • Walton A. . Journal of Political Philosophy 2020, 28(1), 51-72.
  • Walton A. . Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2015, 18(6), 577-598.
  • Walton A. . Moral Philosophy and Politics 2014, 1(2), 249-268.
  • Walton A. . Political Studies 2013, 61(3), 691-706.
  • Walton A, Camia V. . Analyse & Kritik 2013, 35(1), 163-186.
  • Walton A. . Utilitas 2012, 24(1), 126-138.
  • Walton A. . Third World Quarterly 2010, 31(3), 431-447.
  • Walton A. . Journal of Global Ethics 2009, 5(3), 215-230.

• Authored Book

  • Walton A, Abel W, Kahn E, Parr T. . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

• Book Chapters

  • Walton A. . In: Lever, A; Poama, A, ed. Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy. London: Routledge, 2018, pp.202-213.
  • Walton A. . In: R. Bellamy & U. Staiger, ed. The Eurozone Crisis and the Democratic Deficit. London: UCL European Institute, 2013, pp.18-19.
  • Walton A. . In: J. Murphy & K. Callaghan, ed. Toward a Post-Market Society. New York: Nova, 2011, pp.71-87.

• Editorials

  • Coward M, Grayson K, Chisholm A, Clough E, Feklyunina V, Walton A. . Politics 2016, 36(2), 115-117.
  • Coward M, Grayson K, Chisholm A, Walton A, Clough E, Feklyunina V. . Politics 2016, 36(1), 3-4.

• Note

  • Herzog L, Walton A. . Ethics and Global Politics 2014, 7(2), 83-94.