capacities

Andreas Diemer
I am a researcher at the Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) at Stockholm University and at the Institute for Futures Studies. I am also part of the Urban Lab network hosted by the Institute
CANCELLED Robert B. Talisse: The Problem of Polarization
Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Abstract Democracy is such an important social good that it seems natural to think that more i
The making of an egalitarian elite: school ethos and the production of privilege
The British Journal of Sociology 2019, Volume 70, Issue 2 Abstract Research on privilege and education often focuses on institutions that are elite in a rather traditional way, for example schools that i
Distributive justice, social cooperation, and the basis of equality
Theoria Abstract This paper considers the view that the basis of equality isthe range property of being a moral person. This view,suggested by John Rawls in hisA Theory of Justice(1971),is commonly dism
Completed: Subterranean politics – the world and work of policy professionals
What are the implications of policy professionals gaining more and more influence over the political agenda, rather than elected officials? This project examines how these policy professionals, who are employed rather than elected to office, view their work.
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Current and Recent Projects The Mimir Institute for Long Term Futures Studies Climate Ethics and Future Generations Sustainable Population in the Time of Climate Change Anxieties of Democracy The Boundary