Dr. Thad Williamson

Williamson, Thad, Julian Maxwell Hayter, and Amy L. Howard. The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond: Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2024.

Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work? co-edited with Melody C. Barnes and Corey D. B. Walker (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020).

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond, co-edited with Martin O'Neill (New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012).

Leadership and Global Justice, co-edited with Douglas Hicks (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).

Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).

Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era, co-authored with David Imbroscio and Gar Alperovitz (New York: Routledge Press, 2002).

Williamson, Thad. (December 2023). "A General Model of Good Executive Leadership in Policy Contexts." Interdisciplinary Journal of Leadership Studies, 2: 54-63.

“Who Owns What? An Egalitarian Interpretation of John Rawls’s Idea of a Property-Owning Democracy.” Journal of Social Philosophy 40 (2009): 434-453.

“The Good Society and the Good Soul: Plato’s Republic on Leadership.” Leadership Quarterly 19 (2008): 397-408.

“Sprawl, Spatial Location, and Politics.” American Politics Research 36 (2008): 903-933.

“Local Policy Responses to Globalization: Place-based Ownership Models of Economic Enterprise,” Policy Studies Journal 31 (2003): 231-252.

Williamson, Thad. "Economic Justice." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies, edited by George R. Goethals, Scott T. Allison, and Georgia J. Sorenson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2023.

Williamson, Thad. "Property-Owning Democracy." In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies, edited by George R. Goethals, Scott T. Allison, and Georgia J. Sorenson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2023.

Williamson, Thad. “Community Wealth Building.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies, edited by George R. Goethals, Scott T. Allison, and Georgia J. Sorenson. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2023.

"Becoming the American community we should be--but have never been" with Melody C. Barnes. In "Community Wealth Building and the Reconstruction of American Democracy: Can We Make American Democracy Work?" Edited by Melody C. Barnes, Corey D. B. Walker, and Thad Williamson (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2020).

“Beyond Sprawl and Anti-Sprawl.” In Jonathan Davies and David Imbroscio, eds. Critical Urban Studies: New Directions. (New York: SUNY Press, 2010).

“Leadership and Political Traditions, I: Conservatism, Liberalism, and Civic Republicanism.” In Richard Couto, ed. Political and Civic Leadership: A Reference Handbook. (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2010).

“The Challenge of Urban Sprawl.” With David Imbroscio and Gar Alperovitz. In Nancy Kleniewski, ed. Cities and Society. (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2005).

Williamson, Thad. "Democracy in the Real World." Boston Review (Dec. 7, 2023).

Williamson, Thad. (Online Dec. 23, 2022). "The Privatization of Everything: How the Plunder of Public Goods Transformed America and How We Can Get it Back, by Donald Cohen and Allen Mikaelian," Journal of Urban Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1080/07352166.2022.2141556.