Samuel Bagg

Samuel Bagg is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, where he teaches political theory. His books include The Dispersion of Power: A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy (2024) and (as co-editor) Democracy and Competition: Rethinking the Forms, Purposes, and Values of Competition in Democracy (2026). His recent work applies a critical realist perspective on democracy to questions of institutional design and organizational structure, as well as the political ethics of identity, discourse, mobilization, and party competition.