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Popular sovereignty facing the deep state. The rule of recognition and the powers of the people
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, published online first. doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2019.1644583 Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between the idea of popula
It' about class: Why children with immigrant parents have lower grades but higher ambitions
Previous research has shown that children of immigrant parents have worse grades in school than children with at least one parent born in Sweden. Yet, these children have higher ambitions with their edI
Political Integration through Associational Affiliation? Immigrants and Native Swedes in Greater Stockholm
2011. 37:99–115. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. Abstract Theories of participation have been developed and tested almost exclusively on majority populations. While the relative underrepresentat
Lone threats: a register-based study of Swedish lone actors
International Journal of Comparative and Appliced Criminal Justice Abstract This study investigates 30 lone actors in Sweden with a register-based design using a group of male lone actors and two refere
Freedom as Non-domination and Democratic Inclusion
Res Publica. doi:10.1007/s11158-016-9348-8 Abstract According to neo-republicans, democracy is morally justified because it is among the prerequisites for freedom as non-domination. The claim that democ
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
Jason Beckfield: Unequal Europe: Regional Integration and the Rise of European Inequality
Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. Abstract The Euro-crisis of 2009–2012 and the UK’s 2016 vote to leave the EU vividly demonstrated that EU policies matter for the distribut
An Ombudsman for Future Generations, Legitimate and Effective?
in: Institutions For Future Generations, Iñigo González-Ricoy and Axel Gosseries (red.), Oxford: Oxford University Press. 117-134. This chapter examines the possibility to establish ombudsmen as instr
The dilemma of human enhancement
Would you cut off your legs and replace them with prostheses which can take you places faster? Would you take drugs to enhance your cognitive skills? Perhaps you are already doing that? In the latest

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