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8'Democratic Agents' and 'Agents of Democracy' in Multilayered GovernanceIn Eva Erman & Ludvig Beckman (eds.), Territories of Citizenship, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 60. 2012.
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168Three Failed Charges against Ideal TheorySocial Theory and Practice 39 (1): 19-44. 2013.An intensified discussion on the role of normative ideals has re-emerged in several debates in political philosophy. What is often referred to as “ideal theory,” represented by liberal egalitarians such as John Rawls, is under attack from those that stress that political philosophy at large should take much more seriously the nonideal circumstances consisting of relations of domination and power under which normative ideals, principles, and ideas are supposed to be applied. While the debate so f…Read more
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12Political Equality in Transnational DemocracyPalgrave-Macmillan. 2013.This book is about the status of political equality under global political conditions. The overall aim is to revitalize the debate on the status of political equality in transnational democracy.
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54What is wrong with agonistic pluralism?: Reflections on conflict in democratic theoryPhilosophy and Social Criticism 35 (9): 1039-1062. 2009.During the last couple of decades, concurrently with an increased awareness of the complexity of ethical conflicts, political theorists have directed attention to how constitutional democracy should cope with a fact of incommensurable doctrines. Poststructuralists such as Chantal Mouffe claim that ethical conflicts are fundamentally irreconcilable, which is indeed a view shared by many liberal theorists. The question of whether ethical conflicts are in principle irreconcilable is an important on…Read more
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52Multiple citizenship: normative ideals and institutional challengesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 15 (3): 279-302. 2012.Institutional suggestions for how to rethink democracy in response to changing state responsibilities and capabilities have been numerous and often mutually incompatible. This suggests that conceptual unclarity still reigns concerning how the normative ideal of democracy as collective self-determination, i.e. ?rule by the people?, might best be brought to bear in a transnational and global context. The aim in this paper is twofold. First, it analyses some consequences of the tendency to smudge t…Read more
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40Why Democracy Cannot Be Grounded in Epistemic PrinciplesSocial Theory and Practice 42 (3): 449-473. 2016.In recent years, philosophers influenced by Peirce's pragmatism have contributed to the democracy debate by offering not simply a justification of democracy that relies on epistemic as well as moral presumptions, but a justification on purely epistemic grounds, that is, without recourse to any moral values or principles. In a nutshell, this pragmatist epistemic argument takes as its starting-point a few fundamental epistemic principles we cannot reasonably deny, and goes on to claim that a numbe…Read more
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Review Essay: Discourse Theory, Intercultural Dialogue, and Human RightsHuman Rights Quarterly 36 (4). 2014.
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In Search for Democratic Agency in Deliberative GovernanceEuropean Journal of International Relations 19 (4). 2013.
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10Territories of CitizenshipPalgrave-Macmillan. 2012.A comprehensive exploration of theories of citizenship and inclusiveness in an age of globalization. The authors analyze democracy and the political community in a transnational context, using new critical, conceptual and normative perspectives on the borders, territories and political agents of the state.
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4Political Legitimacy in the Real Normative World: The Priority of Morality and the Autonomy of the PoliticalBritish Journal of Political Science 45 (1): 215-233. 2015.
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91Why Political Realists Should Not Be Afraid of Moral ValuesJournal of Philosophical Research 40 459-464. 2015.In a previous article, we unpacked the so-called “ethics first premise”—the idea that ethics is “prior” to politics when theorizing political legitimacy— that is denied by political realists. We defended a “justificatory” reading of this premise, according to which political justification is irreducibly moral in the sense that moral values are among the values that ground political legitimacy. We called this the “necessity thesis.” In this paper we respond to two challenges that Robert Jubb and …Read more
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31How practices do not matterCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (1). 2019.
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Book review: The Crisis of the European Union, by Jürgen HabermasEuropean Political Science 11. 2012.
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On Goodhart's Global Democracy: A CritiqueEthics and International Affairs 22 (4). 2008.In this critique of Michael Goodhart's "Human Rights and Global Democracy," Eva Erman argues that Goodhart has reconceptualized democracy and therefore does not offer a better understanding of the relationship between human rights and global democracy
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Stockholm UniversityProfessor
Stockholm, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |