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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.
Antitrust and Competition

Everyone Wants Competition. Few Ask What Kind

Shai Agmon
In a new volume chapter, Shai Agmon and Samuel Bagg argue that academic and policy references to “competition” often fail to distinguish between competition’s many forms. Their disaggregation of competition into two complementary processes—parallel and friction competition—helps to clarify the neo-Brandeisian approach to competition policy and its advantages over the traditional consumer welfare approach.

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