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Freedom, Equality, and Justifiability to All: Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy
The Journal of Ethics Abstract According to John Rawls’s famous Liberal Principle of Legitimacy, the exercise of political power is legitimate only if it is justifiable to all citizens. The currently dominternalistexternalistinclusive
Lukas Meyer: Legitimate Expectations and Compensation in Changing Circumstances
Venue: Institute for Futures Studies, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm Research seminar with Lukas Meyer, professor of philosophy at the University of Graz. Abstract: This paper discusses how legitimate exp
Emil Andersson
I defended my dissertation, Reinterpreting Liberal Legitimacy, in June 2019 at Uppsala University. The thesis deals with the topic of political legitimacy from a Rawlsian contractualist perspective. In
Anna Stilz: Climate displacement and territorial justice
Plats: Institutet för framtidsstudier, Holländargatan 13 in Stockholm, or online OBS! This seminar is part of a workshop and therefor takes place on a different weekday and time than usual. Research semi
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?
