European Journal of Political Theory, DOI: 10.1177/1474885117738116 Abstract How can we equalize opportunities while respecting people’s freedom? According to a view that I call libertarian resourcism, pbecome a powerful weapon to criticize work conditionality as unfair and perfectionistic (or illiberal), and to motivate political struggles for the emancipation of the precariat. However, similar views are also expressed in many other justifications of basic income that stress the strategic importance of exit-based empowerment. This article argues that the reliance of these theories on concepts and assumptions of libertarianism makesthem ill-equipped to justify core requirements of social empowerment, and to identify the forms of agency needed to sustainably advance the radical objectives they favour. The implication of this is not to reject the link between social justice and unconditional resource endowments but to dissociate the justification and design of such measures from libertarian ways of thinking.

If a social scientific observer of the mid-1980s had been presented with a line-up of rich Western countries – say Germany, Sweden, the UK, France, the US – and asked to guess which of these countriesextent come from for-profit providers.

Socio-Economic Review, 2018. Vol 00, No. 0, 1–21. DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwy005 AbstractIn this article, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been see

Working paper 2017 nr 1. In this paper, we analyse the recent history and current resilience of for-profit care and service provision in what has often been seen as the archetypical social democratic w

Research seminar with Bo Malmberg: Spatial polarization in Sweden

At this seminar, Bo Malmberg discusses what polarization looks like in Sweden, what is driving polarization, and what the consequences are. One conclusion is that areas characterized by concentrated p

James Fishkin: Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization?

James Fishkin: Is Deliberation an Antidote to Extreme Partisan Polarization? Reflections on “America in One Room” This talk is positioned at the intersectionof two literatures: partisan polarizatio

Robert B. Talisse is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee Abstract Democracy is such an important social good that it seems natural to think that more i

Stefan Svallfors & Anna Tyllström Institute for Futures Studies & Södertörn University, Stockholm ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyse the striking resilience of for-profit care and service provision

Research seminar with Bo Malmberg, Professor of Geography at Stockholm University. RegisterAbstractAt this seminar, Bo Malmberg discusses what polarization looks like in Sweden, what is driving polariz

Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Abstract While existing theories of political polarization tend to suggest that the opinions of liberals and conservatives move in opposite directions, avai