Eri Bertsou: What do citizens consider to be politically legitimate uses of expertise?

Can democratic politics incorporate citizen demands for independent expertise in ways that boost legitimacy and trust in politics? Democratic governments worldwide face the dilemma of how to deal with

Venue: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13, 4th floor, Stockholm, and online Research seminar with Eri Bertsou, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of St. Gallen (HSG).REG

THIS SEMINAR IS UNFORTUNATELY CANCELLED. Elizabeth Bruch, University of Michigan (Attention: this seminar is held on a Monday) Although there have been efforts in recent years to study the linkages bet

Theoria Abstract This paper considers the view that the basis of equality isthe range property of being a moral person. This view,suggested by John Rawls in hisA Theory of Justice(1971),is commonly dism

Listen to our Director Gustaf Arrhenius'talk "Ethical, legal and political implications of self driving vehicles", held at the Transport Initiative Seminar at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothe

Journal of Graph Theory Abstract We consider the problem of extending partial edge colorings of hypercubes. In particular, we obtain an analogue of the positive solution to the famous Evans' conjecture

in: BioethicsAbstractRecently, Perry Hendricks argued that abortion is immoral even if the fetus is not a person. He did so by arguing that causing a future child to suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome

The paper examines arguments presented by unions and employers concerning immigration in relation to the Swedish labor market. It also considers how Sweden’s institutional arrangements in this respect

Jo (Jonathan) Wolff, Professor of Philosophy at University College London ABSTRACTMoral and political philosophers typically hope that their theories and arguments will have a positive influence on rea

Dr Simone Abram, Department of Anthropology, Durham University ABSTRACT Within the broad term 'democratic state' there is a messy set of imagined virtues, vices and possibilities. In this paper, I consi