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Implicit bias, epistemic injustice, and pragmatic stereotypes
The Philosophical Quarterly Abstract Members of stigmatized social groups are often treated unjustly in conversation. Fricker’s influential work on epistemic injustice addresses this topic, according to
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register-Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland
Journal for the scientific study of religion Abstract Secularization theory has been challenged by research showing religious persistence and upswing in contexts across the world. In Europe, particularl

Bo Rothstein: Is there a contradiction between democracy and quality of government?
Most definitions of democracy rely on a set of procedural rules for how political power should be accessed legitimately. The basic norm for these procedural rules is according to noted democracy theor
Personhood and legal status: reflections on the democratic rights of corporations
Netherlands Journal of Legal Philosophy 47:1, pp. 13-28., doi: 10.5553/NJLP/.000068. Introduction Corporations are regularly ascribed rights and duties, yet few believe they should have the right to part
Bo Rothstein: A social science dilemma. Is there a contradiction between democracy and quality of government?
Research seminar with Bo Rothstein.AbstractMost definitions of democracy rely on a set of procedural rules for how political power should be accessed legitimately. The basic norm for these procedural ru realized by equal democratic rights. In this understanding of political legitimacy, democracy is a “partisan game” where various interests are given fair possibilities to compete for political power. The concept of “quality of government” relates to the legitimacy in the of political power and is based on the norm of that is the opposite of partisanship. This is to be realized by, for example, the rule of law and a public administration built on meritocracy. Several tensions between these two bases for achieving political legitimacy will be present. For example, a democratically elected government may want to politicize the public administration and may establish public services and benefits directed only to their political supporters. The rule of law includes the principle of equality before the law, but a democratically elected government may take actions that put itself “above” the law. Various empirical measures and philosophical principles for understanding these type of tensions between democracy and the quality of government will be presented in this lecture.
Completed: Individual and collective responsibility for discrimination from implicit bias
The project aims to evaluate the ethical consequences, on an individual and collective level, of implicit bias that causes ethnic discrimination.
The Generational Welfare Contract: Justice, Institutions and Outcomes.
Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (Forthcoming, Publication in August 2017). This groundbreaking book brings together perspectives from political philosophy and comparative social policy to discuss generational
Climate policies for conservatives
In the 1970s and 1980s, conservatives were prominent in climate and environmental issues. Now, this political domain is dominated by the left. How did this happen and what policies aiming to mitigate
Emergent Cultural Differences in Online Communities’ Norms of Fairness
Games and Cultures, doi.org/10.1177/1555412018800650 Abstract Unpredictable social dynamics can dominate social outcomes even in carefully designed societies like online multiplayer games. According to
Statistical Mechanics of Money, Income, Debt, and Energy Consumption
Victor Yakovenko, University of Maryland By analogy with the probability distribution of energy in statistical physics, I argue that the probability distribution of money in a closed economic system sh, Reviews of Modern Physics 81, 1703 (2009), New Journal of Physics 12, 075032 (2010). This work is currently supported by the Institute for New Economic Thinking,