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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).

20:T4d2, 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).

JOHN FRANCIS

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