Search Results for:
nondemocratic
03 February, 2017

Allocating adaptation finance: examining three ethical arguments for recipient control

International Environmental Agreements , 16(5), p.655–670. doi:10.1007/s10784-015-9288-3 Abstract Most agree that large sums of money should be transferred to the most vulnerable countries in order to he

Type of publication: Journal articles | Duus-Otterström, Göran
Read more
11 June, 2015

Malcolm Fairbrother: Elites, Democracy and the Rise of Globalization

Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol ABSTRACTWhy have the governments of so many nations decided to globalize their economies in the last 30 years? The literature on this question is polarized

Dr Malcolm Fairbrother, University of Bristol
Read more
17 August, 2018

Children and the right to vote

In: Gheaus, Anca, Calder, Gideon, and De Wispelaere, Jurgen, eds. The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Childhood and Children. Milton: Routledge. Introduction The history of democracy is stronglySixty years ago, no European democracy allowed 18-year-olds to vote; today, no European nation denies people aged 18 the vote. The tendency is to lower the age of voting further. Voting from the age of 16 is now allowed in several countries, including Austria, Argentina and Brazil. The general question raised by these developments concerns what the final destination should be: what is the appropriate voting-rights age in a democracy?

Type of publication: Chapters | Beckman, Ludvig
Read more