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EU Citizens - Thirty years on. An introduction
Nordisk Socialrättslig Tidskrift/Nordic Social Law Journal 38.2024 Patricia Mindus & Anna-Sara Lind (eds.) Abstract 2023 marked thirty years since European Union citizenship was introduced as the Trea

Eri Bertsou: What do citizens consider to be politically legitimate uses of expertise?
Can democratic politics incorporate citizen demands for independent expertise in ways that boost legitimacy and trust in politics? Democratic governments worldwide face the dilemma of how to deal with
Excluding Citizens: Belongership and the Constitutional Demos in British Overseas Territories
Ethnopolitics Abstract Previous literature explains the fact that sub-national elections tend to be more inclusive than national elections by reference to the level of the election. This paper argues th
Eri Bertsou: Varieties of Expertise: What do citizens consider to be politically legitimate uses of expertise
Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and online Research seminar with Eri Bertsou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of St. Gallen (HSG).REG
Research seminar Ellen Lust: We Don’t Need No Education: Citizens, States and Development
Ellen Lust, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg. ABSTRACT Conventional wisdom holds that citizens demand high quality service provision across all countries and sectors,
Joakim Kulin: Climate change or social change? Sociological perspectives on citizens’ environmental beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors
Joakim Kulin, Researcher at Department of Sociology, Umeå University.ABSTRACT It is increasingly evident that greenhouse gas emissions and global warming pose serious existential risks to human societi
Allegiance Eroding: People’s Dwindling Willingness to Fight in Wars
in: The Civic Culture Transformed: from Allegiant to Assertive Citizens, Dalton, R & Welzel, C.,(eds), Page 261–281, Cambridge University Press, New York.
Challenges for the Local Communities
This working paper aims at paving the way for further research on the changing relations between citizens and the local environment in which their everyday activities take place, as to contribute to a

Voting behavior, policy responsiveness and democratic anger. Interview with Armin Schäfer
European citizens with low socio-economic status are staying away from the polls in disproportionate numbers. Some of them say it is because politicians don't care about them anyway. Are they right? P
Is there a moral right to vote?
Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, pp. 1-13, DOI 10.1007/s10677-017-9824-z. Abstract The question raised in this paper is whether legal rights to vote are also moral rights to vote. The challenge to the