Stuart White is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and a Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford University. His research interests lie in egalitarian political theory and its application to public policy. He is the author of The Civic Minimum (2003) and Equality (2006) and recently co-edited Building a Citizen Society (2008). Other recent publications include
the co-authored pamphlet, How to Defend Inheritance Tax (2008). He obtained his Ph.D from Princeton University (1995) and was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at M.I.T. (1997-1999) before taking up his current job at Oxford. He blogs regularly at Next Left (www.nextleft.org)