Adina Preda: Can there be positive human rights?

Research seminar with Adina Preda, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. Abstract This paper aims to establish that there can be human rights to socio-economic goods or services

Research seminar with Adina Preda, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin.AbstractThis paper aims to establish that there can be human rights to socio-economic goods or services, ; the worry is that positive rights cannot have correlative duties assignable to everyone in the world. I then clarify the notion of correlativity and raise doubts about this claim. The paper concludes that there is no conceptual reason why positive rights cannot be general although they would probably look different from the socio-economic rights currently enshrined in international legal documents; the paper does not, however, argue that there are such moral rights. 

Chapter 4 in: Anthony Heath and Yaël Brinbaum (Eds.), Unequal attainments: Ethnic educational inequalities in ten Western countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Proceedings of the British Academy

Lina Eriksson: Changing social norms - what levers can we pull?

Research seminar with Lina Eriksson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Social norms affect us in almost all aspects of our lives, whether we comply with them, choose to v

Venue:Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Lina Eriksson, professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg.  Register here > Abstract Social makelevers to pull

Journal of Economic Geography (available online) Abstract:Studies of neighbourhood effects typically investigate the instantaneous effect of point-in-time measures of neighbourhood poverty on individual

in: New Pathways in Microsimulation, Eds.: Gijs Dekkers, Marcia Keegan & Cathal O’Donoghue. Pp: 41-60. Ashgate

Offentliga samtal: Har vi blivit mer faktaresistenta?

(OBS! Bilden kommer när första talaren kommer upp på scen.) Varför pratas det så mycket om faktaresistens idag? Produktionen och tillgängligheten av kunskap har aldrig varit större än idag. Vi har he

Varför pratas det så mycket om faktaresistens idag? Produktionen och tillgängligheten av kunskap har aldrig varit större än idag. Vi har heller aldrig varit så välutbildade som idag. Trots detta menar