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1Why Adding Democratic Values is Not Enough For Global DemocracyIn E. Erman & A. Uhlin (eds.), Legitimacy Beyond the Nation-State?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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22Representation, equality, and inclusion in deliberative systems: desiderata for a good accountCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 19 (3): 263-282. 2016.
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80Human Rights Do Not Make Global DemocracyContemporary Political Theory 10 (4): 463. 2011.On most accounts of global democracy, human rights are ascribed a central function. Still, their conceptual role in global democracy is often unclear. Two recent attempts to remedy this deficiency have been made by James Bohman and Michael Goodhart. What is interesting about their proposals is that they make the case that under the present circumstances of politics, global democracy is best conceptualized in terms of human rights. Although the article is sympathetic to this ‘human rights approac…Read more
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Democratic Requirements and Trade-offs in a Transnational ContextIn E. Erman & A. Uhlin (eds.), Legitimacy Beyond the Nation-State?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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51Reconciling communicative action with recognition: Thickening the ‘inter’ of intersubjectivityPhilosophy and Social Criticism 32 (3): 377-400. 2006.There is an underlying idea of symmetry involved in most notions of rationality. From a dialogical philosophical standpoint, however, the symmetry implied by social contract theories and so-called Golden Rule thinking is anchored to a Cartesian subjectobject world and is therefore not equipped to address recognition at least not if recognition is to be understood as something happening between subjects. For this purpose, the dialogical symmetry implied by Habermas' communicative action does a…Read more
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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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173Three 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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57What 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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53Multiple 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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41Why 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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Stockholm UniversityProfessor
Stockholm, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |