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173Social Trust and the Ethics of Immigration PolicyJournal of Political Philosophy 17 (2): 146-167. 2009.
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87An exchange: The morality of immigrationEthics and International Affairs 22 (3): 241-259. 2008.Writing in EIA 22, no. 1, Mathias Risse presented a novel way to think about the problem of immigration in the context of global justice, adopting the standpoint of the common ownership of the earth. The following Exchange is in response to that essay
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74Is Random Selection a Cure for the Ills of Electoral Representation?Journal of Political Philosophy 29 (1): 46-72. 2021.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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66Debate: Obligations of Fair Play and ForeignersJournal of Political Philosophy 14 (2): 238-247. 2006.
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64Does the Egalitarian Rationale for Campaign Finance Reform Succeed?Philosophy and Public Affairs 44 (1): 46-76. 2016.
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53The Failure of Instrumental Arguments for a Human Right to DemocracyJournal of Political Philosophy 28 (1): 27-50. 2020.Journal of Political Philosophy, EarlyView.
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46Immigration and the Constraints of Justice: Between Open Borders and Absolute SovereigntyCambridge University Press. 2011.This book explores the constraints which justice imposes on immigration policy. Like liberal nationalists, Ryan Pevnick argues that citizens have special claims to the institutions of their states. However, the source of these special claims is located in the citizenry's ownership of state institutions rather than in a shared national identity. Citizens contribute to the construction and maintenance of institutions, and as a result they have special claims to these institutions and a limited rig…Read more
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34Should campaign finance reform aim to level the playing field?Politics, Philosophy and Economics 18 (4): 358-373. 2019.Many argue that an important goal of campaign finance reform should be to ensure that competing candidates have roughly equal financial resources with which to contest campaigns. Although there are...
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33Should Civil Liberties Have Strict Priority?Law and Philosophy 34 (5): 519-549. 2015.Many political controversies involve conflicts between civil liberties and other important social goals. The orthodox view in liberal political theory is that civil liberties must be given strict priority over competing social goals because of the importance of the interests advanced by such liberties and/or their role in upholding the status of citizens. This paper criticizes both lines of argument. Interest-based arguments fail because we are sometimes willing to sacrifice the very fundamental…Read more
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An Exchange: The Morality of ImmigrationEthics and International Affairs 22 (3). 2008.Writing in EIA 22, no. 1, Mathias Risse presented a novel way to think about the problem of immigration in the context of global justice, adopting the standpoint of the common ownership of the earth. The following Exchange is in response to that essay.