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Non-transitive better than relations and rational choice
in: Philosophia 48 (2020) AbstractThis paper argues that decision problems and money-pump arguments should not be a deciding factor against accepting non-transitive better than relations. If the reason
Neopatrimonialism and the political economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflections
Institute for Futures Studies Working Paper 2013:1. A revised version is published in World Politics, 1-50, 2015.
Making their Mark. Disentangling the Effects of Neighbourhood and School Environment on Educational Achievement
Working Paper 2007 No. 3 A revised version is published in the European Sociological Review, 24 (4). Lars Brännström
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
Deciding the demos: three conceptions of democratic legitimacy
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2017.1390661 Abstract The prevailing view is that democratic procedures are unable to confer democrati
The value of life and the challenge to value aggregation
in: The Dimensions of Poverty: Measurement, Epistemic Injustice, Activism (ed. V. Beck, H. Hahn & R. Lepenies), New York: Springer. 2020. AbstractMultidimensional poverty measures require implicit,
Completed: Valuing future lives
How should we value future lives when making decisions? This question is directly relevant to for example prioritisation in health care, population control, climate change, and existential risk (the survival of animal species and humanity).
Does education indoctrinate?
International Journal of Educational Development Abstract Do states manage to build education systems that produce students with political values they uphold? We test the indoctrination hypothesis using
Non-state actors in global climate governance: from Copenhagen to Paris and beyond.
Environmental Politics, Volume: 26(4):561-579. doi.org/10.1080/09644016.2017.1327485 Introduction ‘Together now!’ was the slogan used in the invitation to the Marrakesh Partnership for Global Climate Ac
Sufficiency and the Distribution of Burdens
In: Mosquera, J. & O. Torpman (ed.), Studies on Climate Ethics and Future Generationsvol. 6. Working Paper Series 2024:10–17 Abstract A common objection to sufficientarianism is that it allows large
