Politics in Gotham

Table of Contents

1.      Introduction: "I Don't Want Batman as President"




Damien K. Picariello (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina Sumter)

2. Justice Unmasked




Alan I. Baily (Associate Professor of Political Science, Stephen F. Austin State University)

3. The Dark Knight: Toward a Democratic Tragedy




Steven Johnston (Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service and Professor of Political Science, University of Utah)

4. The Heroism of Sober Expectations


Damien K. Picariello (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina Sumter)



5. Deconstructing Batman's Legitimacy: The Radical Political Critique of Christopher Nolan's Batman Cycle


William J. Berger (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania)

6. Batman the Noble Dog: The Costs of Spiritedness for the Individual and Society




Ian J. Drake (Associate Professor, Political Science and Law, Montclair State University)

Matthew B. Lloyd (Reviewer, DC Comics News)

7. The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City


Anthony Petros Spanakos (Professor of Political Science, Montclair State University)

8. The Lion, the Fox, and the Bat: The Animal Nature of Machiavelli's The Prince and Batman




Daniel V. Goff (Strategic Initiatives Group; Ph.D. Student, Humanities, Salve Regina University)

9. Criminal Justice in Gotham: The Role of the Dark Knight




Mark D. White (Professor of Philosophy, College of Staten Island/CUNY)

10. The Retributive Knight


Mohamad Al-Hakim (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University)

Damien K. Picariello is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA