JOHN FRANCIS
Professor Emeritus
Political Science
BIO
I am a specialist in American federalism, comparative regulatory policy and British electoral politics. Recent books include States of Health: The Ethics and Consequences of Policy Variation in a Federal System. (Oxford, 2024; coauthored with Leslie P. Francis), Sustaining Surveillance: The Importance of Information for Public Health (Springer, 2021; coauthored with Leslie P. Francis) and the coedited volume David Cameron and Conservative Renewal: The Limits of Modernisation (Manchester University Press, 2016; with Gillian R. Peele).
Recent articles and book chapters include “Non-Ideal Theory not to Disclose Thoughts,” in O’Callaghan, Patrick, and Bethany Shiner, eds. The Cambridge Handbook of the Right to Freedom of Thought (Cambridge University Press 2025 (with Leslie P. Francis); “Federalism and the Right to Travel: Medical Aid in Dying and Abortion,” Journal of Health Care Law & Policy 26(1): 49-85 (2023) (with Leslie P. Francis); and .
“Freedom of Thought in the United States: The First Amendment, Marketplaces of Ideas, and the Internet,” European Journal of Comparative Law and Governance 8(2-3): 192-225 (2021) (with Leslie P. Francis).
INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
- Professor EmeritusPolitical Science1 Jul 2023 - present
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Assistant ProfessorUniversity of Utah, Political Science1 Jul 1974 - 30 Jun 1980
- Associate ProfessorUniversity of Utah, Political Science1 Jul 1980 - 30 Jun 1989
- ProfessorUniversity of Utah, Political Science1 Jul 1989 - 30 Jun 2016
DEGREES
- BA, Political ScienceStanford University
- PhD, Political ScienceUniversity of Michigan
LANGUAGES
- Spanish; Castilian
- French