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Three Conceptions of Law in Democratic Theory
The Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence Abstract Democratic theory tends to proceed on the assumption that law requires democratic legitimation because it is coercive. However, the claim that la
Deciding the demos: three conceptions of democratic legitimacy
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2017.1390661 Abstract The prevailing view is that democratic procedures are unable to confer democrati
Climate anxiety: Conceptual considerations, and connections with climate hope and action
Global Environmental Change, vol. 76, 2022. Abstract Climate anxiety is a phenomenon which raises growing attention. Based on a national survey of climate-related feelings and behaviors (N= 2070) in Fin
“Time to Abandon Swedish Women”: Discursive Connections Between Misogyny and White Supremacy in Sweden
International Journal of Communication 18(2024) Abstract This article explores the discursive linkages between violent misogyny and violent rightwingextremism in the popular Swedish online discussion foranonymous and relatively unmoderated commenting. Empirically, it focuses on thearticulations of misogyny and anti-feminism mapped onto extreme right ideology includingwhite supremacism in user comments posted across 16 Flashback threads. To analyze theextensive data set, we first drew on a collocation analysis of user comments (N = 20,359)scraped from a strategic selection of threads. From this sample we chose 36 combinationsto be considered for a closer reading. In the second analytical step, critical discourseanalysis coupled with the Essex School’s logics approach helped us unpack the logics ofconspiracy and male entitlement, as well as the fantasmatic projections of Swedish womenas both “race traitors” and “victims” at the heart of extreme right discourse in and beyondSweden today.
Attitudes towards childbearing, population, and the environment: prevalence, correlates, and connections with fertility outcomes in Sweden
Population and Environment Abstract Environmental concerns may influence personal fertility decisions and general opinions about childbearing and population dynamics, but research on this topic remains NN
Legal Power and the Right to Vote: Does the Right to Vote Confer Power?
Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence, 30(1), 5–22. Abstract It is widely believed that voting rights confer power to individual voters as well as to the collective body of the electorate. This pa
Legitimacy at sea. Authority and extraterritorial border controls
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Abstract This paper examines the legitimacy of extraterritorial border controls, specifically maritime interceptions, through the lens of
Review of Elinor Mason’s Ways to be Blameworthy
Oxford University Press (2020) Abstract:In the moral responsibility literature, it is often said that blameworthiness presupposes wrongdoing. But there are numerous conceptions of both blame and wrongd is, to our knowledge, the first book-length attempt to spell out what the relevant kinds of wrongdoing and blame are that would make a strong connection between wrongdoing and blameworthiness plausible.
Democratic legitimacy does not require constitutional referendum. On ‘the constitution’ in theories of constituent power
European Constitutional Law Review, Volume 14, Issue 3, pp. 567-583, doi.org/10.1017/S1574019618000287 Abstract Constitutional referendum – Popular sovereignty – Constituent power – Democratic legitimac
Does semantic information need to be truthful?
Synthese 196(7): 2885–2906. doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1587-5 Abstract The concept of information has well-known difficulties. Among the many issues that have been discussed is the alethic nature of a se