Rate My Professor Mindy Peden

Dr. Mindy J. Peden is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences, at John Carroll University. She earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and both an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Cornell University, where she served as Teaching Assistant and Head Teaching Assistant from 1998 to 2003. Her doctoral dissertation, completed in 2004, is titled 'A Political Theory of Taxation.' Previously, she held the position of Associate Professor of Political Science and served as Department Chair at John Carroll University.

Peden's scholarly work appears in journals such as Studies in Political Economy, Contemporary Political Theory, and New Political Science, as well as in encyclopedias and edited volumes. Her publications include 'Economic Crisis,' 'Fiscal Crisis,' and 'Legitimation Crisis' (Encyclopedia of Critical Political Theory, 2024); 'Inflating Value with Other People's Money,' a review of works on the political economy of financialization (2023); 'Revolutionary Accounting? Methods and Possibilities in Critical Strategy' (New Political Science, 2019); 'Portfolio Society: On the Capitalist Mode of Prediction,' a book review (2018); 'Profit' and 'Monopoly Capitalism' (Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory, 2017); 'Interest as Verb: Critiquing the Neoliberal Conception of Interest' (2014); 'Ulster-Scots Diaspora: Articulating a Politics of Identification after "the Peace" in Northern Ireland' (2013); 'Situating Race and Nation in the U.S. Context: Methodology, Interdisciplinarity and the Unresolved Role of Comparative Inquiry' (2009); 'You Get What You Pay For: Historicizing Business Metaphors of Government, Principles of Justice in Taxation, and "Benefit Theory"' (Studies in Political Economy, 2008); and "Democratic Taxation" and Quantifiable Action: Scientizing Dilemmas' (Contemporary Political Theory, 2008). She is currently writing about probable futures, uncertainty, and instrumental rationality. Her research interests encompass modern and contemporary political theory, comparative politics, and Northern Ireland.