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1The Right to have Rights' to the Rescue: From Human Rights to Global DemocracyIn M. Goodale (ed.), Human Rights at the Crossroads, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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38This volume explores the relationship between human rights and democracy within both the theoretical and empirical field. It is an innovative study that offers tools for democratizing existing global political institutions.
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Democratic Credentials of Transnational ActorsIn E. Erman & A. Uhlin (eds.), Legitimacy Beyond the Nation-State?, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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43Rethinking accountability in the context of human rightsRes Publica 12 (3): 249-275. 2006.Within liberal democratic theory, ‘democratic accountability’ denotes an aggregative method for linking political decisions to citizens’ preferences through representative institutions. Could such a notion be transferred to the global context of human rights? Various obstacles seem to block such a transfer: there are no ‘world citizens’ as such; many people in need of human rights are not citizens of constitutional democratic states; and the aggregative methods that are supposed to sustain the l…Read more
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37Conflict and Universal Moral TheoryPolitical Theory 35 (5): 598-623. 2007.The solutions to moral problems offered by contemporary moral theories largely depend on how they understand pluralism. This article compares two different kinds of universal moral theories, liberal impartiality theory and discourse ethics. It defends the twofold thesis that (1) a dialogical theory such as discourse ethics is better equipped to give an account of pluralism than impartiality theory due to a more correct understanding of the nature of conflict, but that (2) discourse ethics cannot…Read more
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The Boundary Problem and the Right to JustificationIn D. Owen (ed.), Justice, Democracy and the Right to Justification, Bloomsbury Academic. 2014.
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Political Equality and Legitimacy in a Global ContextIn E. Erman & S. Näsström (eds.), Political Equality in Transnational Democracy, Palgrave-macmillan. 2013.
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Freedom as non-dominationIn V. Flocke & H. Schoneville (eds.), Differenz und Dialog, Berliner Wissenschafts-verlag. 2011.
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59What distinguishes the practice-dependent approach to justice?Philosophy and Social Criticism 42 (1): 3-23. 2016.The practice-dependent approach to justice has received a lot of attention in post-millennium political philosophy. It has been developed in different directions and its normative implications have been criticized, but little attention has been directed to the very distinction between practice-dependence and practice-independence and the question of what theoretically differentiates a practice-dependent account from mainstream practice-independent accounts. The core premises of the practice-depe…Read more
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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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21Representation, 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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79Human 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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48Reconciling 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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Stockholm UniversityProfessor
Stockholm, Sweden
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Normative Ethics |
Areas of Interest
Meta-Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |