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- Andersson, Henrik, et al.
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The Ethics of Population Policies
- 2021
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP). - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772.
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)
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- Beckman, Ludvig, 1970-
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Deciding the demos : three conceptions of democratic legitimacy
- 2019
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 22:4, s. 412-431
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The prevailing view is that democratic procedures are unable to confer democratic legitimacy to decisions about democratic procedures. This paper examines this claim in detail and uses referendums on the inclusion of previously disenfranchised groups in the demos as a running example. The paper distinguishes between pure, imperfect and quasi-pure models of procedural democratic legitimacy and sub-versions of them. To various extents, each model does have the capacity to confer legitimacy to demos decisions under well-defined circumstances. The paper argues that quasi-pure procedural legitimacy represents the most promising account of democratic legitimacy in cases where democratic procedures are the subject of collective decision-making. According to this model, the decision to revise the rules for membership in the demos is permissible by democratic standards if and only if the revision is not forbidden by democratic principles for inclusion. The point is that the range of alternatives that are not forbidden by democratic principles of inclusion are likely to be considerable due to vagueness of the principles themselves and/or them being subject to reasonable disagreement. The paper concludes with a discussion about the possibility of democratic legitimacy for democratic institutions not introduced as a result of democratic decision-making.
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- Beckman, Ludvig, 1970-
(författare)
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Popular sovereignty facing the deep state : The rule of recognition and the powers of the people
- 2021
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 24:7, s. 954-976
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper investigates the relationship between the idea of popular sovereignty and the conditions for legal validity and argue that the latter imposes definitive limits to the former. Popular sovereignty has been defined as the condition when the will of the people is the "supreme authority in the state". Following this conception, there is no authority above the people and this is traditionally understood to mean that the authority of the people is above the constitution. Legal validity, though admittedly still debated, is here understood along Hart's "rule of recognition" According to which the validity of norms ultimately depends on the social practices of public officials. Though presumably uncontroversial that democratic peoples are entitled to remake the constitution, the powers of the people with respect to the substance of the law are nevertheless limited with respect to decisions of legal validity. The most basic rules in a legal system are not found in the constitution as they are the rules deciding what is to count as a legal norm within that system. They are more fundamental than the constitution because they also define what norms is the constitution legally speaking.
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- Ben Jelloun, Mohammed
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Review article : a liberal theory of collective rights
- 2023
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 26:6, s. 986-1003
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Michel Seymour fills an important gap in Rawlsian theory. In fact, his Rawls inspired normative theory of collective rights is unprecedented. Likewise, his ideal theory of a primary right to internal self-determination (ISD) is a welcome contribution to the issue of collective rights. That said, his non-ideal theory - a remedial right only to secession - seems rather toothless in cases of non-compliance. In particular, Seymour leaves us with no guidance in the case of transition countries and situations of tension where we need to know whether the ISD of the minority (the stateless) people is enabling or disabling for the ISD of the majority (the state owning) people. The paper concludes that borrowing from Aristotle, as Rawls does, offers more in the way of guidance when it comes to these issues.
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- Birnbaum, Simon, 1977-
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Radical liberalism, Rawls and the welfare state : Justifying the politics of basic income
- 2010
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Routledge. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 13:4, s. 495-516
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In response to recent policy trends towards linking social rights more tightly to work requirements, this article argues that those sharing Rawlsian commitments have good reasons to prefer a radical-liberal policy agenda with a universal basic income at its core. Compared to its main rivals in present policy debates, the politics of basic income has greater potential to promote the economic life prospects of the least advantaged in a way that provides a robust protection for the bases of social recognition and non-subservience. The argument seeks to establish that these concerns should be ascribed priority in the most plausible balancing of Rawlsian objectives and that doing so generates a strong case for basic income. As recent arguments for basic income have suggested that Rawls' theory is insufficient to make the case for such a reform, this analysis also demonstrates that a powerful argument for basic income can be built on Rawlsian foundations alone.
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- Brandstedt, Eric
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Non-Ideal Climate Justice
- 2019
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1743-8772 .- 1369-8230. ; 22:2, s. 221-234
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Based on three recently published books on climate justice, this article reviews the field of climate ethics in light of developments of international climate politics. The central problem addressed is how idealised normative theories can be relevant to the political process of negotiating a just distribution of the costs and benefits of mitigating climate change. I distinguish three possible responses, that is, three kinds of non-ideal theories of climate justice: focused on (1) the injustice of some agents not doing their part; (2) the policy process and aiming to be realistic; and (3) grievances related to the transition to a clean-energy economy. The methodological discussion underpinning each response is innovative and should be of interest more generally, even though it is still underdeveloped. The practical upshot, however, is unclear: even non-ideal climate justice may be too disconnected from the fast-moving and messy climate circus.
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- Brännmark, Johan
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Future generations as rightholders
- 2016
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 19:6, s. 680-698
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many people believe that we have obligations with respect to future generations concerning the state of the environment that we pass on to them. Apart from the practical problem of people not really acting on such beliefs, there are also conceptual or philosophical issues that make these obligations problematic. The so-called non-identity problem is especially difficult: depending on which courses of action we adopt, different people will be born in the future, which means that even future people who due to our behavior will live under fairly poor circumstances might not have any ground for complaint. Had we not behaved as we did, they would not even have existed. It is argued here that, at least within a rights-theoretical approach, the non-identity problem can be solved by moving from considering individual rights to generational rights, rights which future generations hold qua generations.
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- Chahboun, Naima, 1980-
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The limits of nonideal duties : a partial vindication of fair shares
- 2024
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Does the failure of others to comply with collective duties create duties for us to step in and do their share? Defenders of the so-called duty to take up the slack answer this question in the positive. Against their view, defenders of fair shares argue that we only have a duty to contribute our fair share to discharging the collective duty. This paper offers a partial vindication of Liam Murphy’s account of fair shares. I argue that three common objections to fair shares fail to rebut Murphy’s account. On the reading I propose, fair shares may ground as – or more – extensive duties towards third parties as the duty to take up the slack. In addition, fair shares provides something that defenses of slack-taking tend to omit – an account of the limits of our nonideal duties. The paper highlights previously overlooked aspects of Murphy’s account and paves the way for future discussions about slack-taking in the domain of global politics.
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- Duus-Otterström, Göran, 1978
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The problem of past emissions and intergenerational debts
- 2014
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 17:4, s. 448-469
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The problem of past emissions – how to share fairly the costs of climate-changing emissions caused by polluters who are no longer in existence – presents an increasingly pressing challenge to scholars and policy-makers. Since standard contribution-based principles are inapplicable when it comes to past emissions, theorists have instead proposed various non-contribution-based historical principles. This paper develops such a principle – the Inherited Debt Principle – which seeks to account for the intuition that historical injustice matters to current duties in a way that does not appeal to the counterfactual benefits derived from that injustice. This principle, it is argued, offers a surprisingly plausible solution to the problem of past emissions.
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- Erman, Eva, et al.
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Global Democracy and Feasibility
- 2020
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Ingår i: Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1369-8230 .- 1743-8772. ; 23:3, s. 311-331
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While methodological and metatheoretical questions pertaining to feasibility have been intensively discussed in the philosophical literature on justice in recent years, these discussions have not permeated the debate on global democracy. The overall aim of this article is to demonstrate the fruitfulness of importing some of the advancements made in this literature into the debate on global democracy, as well as to develop aspects that are relevant for explaining the role of feasibility in normative political theory. This is done by pursuing two arguments. First, to advance the work on the role of feasibility, we suggest as intuitively plausible two metatheoretical constraints on normative political theorizing – the ‘fitness constraint’ and the ‘functional constraint’ – which elucidate a number of aspects relevant in determining proper feasibility constraints for an account in political theory. Secondly, to illustrate the usefulness of this feasibility framework, we sketch an account of global democracy consisting of normative principles which respond differently to these aspects and thus are tied to different feasibility constraints as well as exemplify how it may be applied in practice.
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