The Review of Politics, 81(3), 435-457. doi:10.1017/S0034670519000214 Abstract The “demos paradox” is the idea that the composition of a demos could never secure democratic legitimacy because the composi

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

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

Philos. Technol.35, 24  Abstract Should artificial intelligences ever be included as co-authors of democratic decisions? According to the conventional view in democratic theory, the answer depends on the

The conference Future of Welfare State Studies Conference was held in Umeå for postdoctoral researchers, on May 15–17. It included parallel sessions focusing on the most central aspects in the researc' address had the title .

Ludvig Beckman

I am Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. In 2000 I defended my dissertation at Uppsala University. I participate in the research project "The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory" t

Ulf Mörkenstam

 I’m Professor in Political Science at Stockholm University. I defended my dissertation at the same university in 1999. At the institute, I participate in the research project "The territory of democrac

Working papers 2022:1-11 Editor: Paul Bowman Proximity Principle, Adieu Robert E. Goodin Reconceiving the Democratic Boundary Problem David Miller The Boundary Problem and Platitudes About Democracy: A Conc

The territory of democracy

The presumption that the jurisdiction of the state extends to the borderes of a certain territory is increasingly being challenged, both by indigenous people within this territory, and by extraterritoriral border control.

Professor David Miller, Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. ABSTRACT The paper I will be presenting asks the general question ‘What boundaries between political units ought there to be?’  Reje