Res Publica-A Journal of Moral Legal and Political Philosophy

Papers
(The median citation count of Res Publica-A Journal of Moral Legal and Political Philosophy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fighting Political Corruption with the Citizens17
Let Them Eat Plants! Two Arguments for Raising Children on a (Predominantly) Plant-Based Diet14
Introduction: Gosseries on What Is Intergenerational Justice?12
Intergenerational Distributive (Climate) Justice11
Ought the State Use Non-Consensual Treatment to Restore Trial Competence?10
Populist Bullshit: A Normative Theory of Populist Communication10
Book Review: Questioning Punishment, Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen10
Living in Disagreement: Public Reason and Jurisdictional Rights9
Between Shelter and Housing: What do Liberal Democracies Owe to Asylum Seekers?8
Less is More: A Normative Evaluation of the ECtHR’s Protection of Commercial Speech7
The Service Conception, Specification Problem and Its Moral Foundations7
Egalitarian Machine Learning7
Should Traditional Representative Institutions be Abolished? A Critical Comment on Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy6
From Ancient Athens to Modern Spain: Sortition, Poll Workers, and the Legitimation of Democracy6
Lottocracy Versus Democracy6
Review of Sharon Krause’s Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom6
How Should We Distribute Education in Property-Owning Democracy and Liberal Socialism?6
Correction to: Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise6
Correction: Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’5
Hessler’s New Feminist Approach to Human Rights Theorizing5
Group (Non) Identity and Historical Justice5
Backward-Looking Principles of Climate Justice: The Unjustified Move from the Polluter Pays Principle to the Beneficiary Pays Principle4
Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise4
Fabienne Peter, The Grounds of Political Legitimacy,4
Do Immigrants have a Moral Duty to Learn the Host Society’s Language?4
G. A. Cohen’s Principle of Labour Justice: Equality of Work and Income Protects Occupational Interests and Avoids the Freedom Objection4
Multiculturalism and Migration: Reconfiguring the Debate4
Policy-Development and Deference to Moral Experts4
Democratic Innovation Beyond Contestation: The Realist Case for Authorial Empowerment4
Limitarianism, Upper Limits, and Minimal Thresholds4
Understanding Reciprocity and the Importance of Civic Friendship4
The Indeterminacy of the Principles of Justice: The Debate on Property-Owing Democracy Versus the Welfare State and the Ideal of Social Union4
The Morality of Risking and the Reliability of Rights4
Mono No Aware: How Conservatives Should do Change4
Should Animals Be Our Equals?3
A Right to Break the Law? On the Political Function and Moral Grounds of Civil Disobedience3
Review of Social Cohesion Contested by Dan Swain and Petr Urban3
Pluralising (Not Limiting) the Agent of Change: A Task for Real-World Political Philosophy3
Relating to Each Other as Free and as Equals: Beyond the Egalitarian Justification of Democracy3
The Duty to Edit the Human Germline3
On the Individuation of Laws and the Interpretation-Construction Distinction3
Injustice without Victims or Arguments from Generational Overlap?: A Reply to Gosseries on Non-Identity3
Can Experimental Political Philosophers be Modest in their Aims?3
Cultural Diversity, Integration and Harm Protection in Liberal Societies2
Review of Lars Moen’s The Republican Dilemma: Promoting Freedom in a Modern Society2
Pro Tanto Wrongness and the Case of Whistleblowing2
How Could They Let This Happen? Cover Ups, Complicity, and the Problem of Accountability2
When Does Balancing Justify Religious Exemptions? The Case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission2
Christian Schemmel: Justice and Egalitarian Relations2
The Rhythm of Justice: On Temporal Indeterminacy in Normative Reasoning2
Human-First Doesn’t Work2
A Duty to Vote? The Polycentric Alternative2
Blaming Reasonable Wrongdoers2
Unequal Turnout and Political Equality2
Is There a Right to Revelatory Autonomy?2
Is Lack of Literature Engagement a Reason for Rejecting a Paper in Philosophy?1
Review of Luigina Mortari’s The Philosophy of Care1
The Mutual Reinforcement of Populism and Post-Truth in Undermining Deliberative Democracy1
An Ethical Assessment of Individual-Targeting Sports Sanctions on Russian Athletes1
Is Approximation of an Ideal Defensible?1
Proportionality in Its Place: Weighted Internal Deliberation1
Review of Achille Mbembe, Out of the Dark Night: Essays on Decolonization, Columbia University Press, New York, 2021. Viii + 280 pp. Hardcover $30.00, E-book $29.99. ISBN: 97802311602851
Normative Behaviourism and Action-Guidance: The Challenge of the Climate Crisis1
Must a Just Distribution of Emissions Shares Respect Territorial Claims to Terrestrial Sink Capacity?1
Legal Pluralism and the Limits of Law1
Migration as Reparation for Colonialism1
The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory: A Methodological Approach1
Trustworthy Science Advice: The Case of Policy Recommendations1
Two Metaverse Dystopias1
How I Would have been Differently Treated. Discrimination Through the Lens of Counterfactual Fairness1
On the Very Concept of Discrimination: Towards a Radical Publicity of Normative Theorizing1
The Inclusive Theory of Rights1
Paternalism and Evidence of Incapacity: Taking Reasons Seriously1
Democratic Legitimacy and Decisions for the Future1
Reframing Affective Injustice: On the Right to Anger and the Priority of Moral Reasons1
Compensation for Historic Injustice: Does it Matter how the Victims Respond?1
Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices1
The Wrong Inference to the Best Explanation for Anti-Natalism1
Nudging Voters and Encouraging Pre-commitment: Beyond Mandatory Turnout1
Prospective Employees and their Criminal Records: Challenges for a Relevant Matching Approach1
Philip Pettit: The State1
Distributive Justice, Political Legitimacy, and Independent Central Banks1
Multiculturalism as Harm Reduction1
What Is the Point of Self-Blame?1
Darrel Moellendorf. Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty, Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780190875619, 248 pp.1
The Moral Argument Against Monarchy (Absolute or Constitutional)1
From Empirical to Experimental Political Theory1
Using (Un)Fair Algorithms in an Unjust World1
Degrees of Legitimacy1
What Does it Take to be Oneself? Raz, Frankfurt and Being a Person1
The Language of Dignity in International Law0
Animal Consent and the Ambit of Law0
The Right to Expressive Voting Methods0
Worries About Philosopher Experts0
Heterogeneous Electoral Constituencies Against Legislative Gridlock0
Are Rights of Nature Manifesto Rights (And is That a Problem)?0
Virginia Mantouvalou: Structural Injustice and Workers’ Rights0
Publicity’s Misinformation Problem0
Should Relational Egalitarians be Committed to Equal Power?0
Plural Visions of Law: The Legacy of Joseph Raz0
The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm0
Care as a Thick Ethical Concept0
Why Normative Behaviourism Does Not Improve Political Realism0
Why and How Should the European Union Defend its Values?0
Normativity, Legitimacy, and Strengthening Migration Justice Mechanisms: A Reply to My Critics0
Law in Society: Defending Hart0
Referendums, Initiatives, and Voters’ Accountability0
Three Lessons for and from Algorithmic Discrimination0
In Defence of Sentient Rights0
Editorial0
Rawls and Economic Liberties0
Consequentialism and the Role of Practices in Political Philosophy0
Beyond Choice: A Non-Ideal Feminist Approach to Body Modification0
On Being a Realist about Migration0
What Libertarians (Should) Think About Inheritance Taxation0
Animal Politics Without Moral Foundations?0
Philosophy, Policy, and Moral Expertise0
Deception, Sex, and the Law: The Case for Criminalising Sex-By-Deception0
Exploitation as Domination? A Response to Bryan and Kouris0
Correction: From Empirical to Experimental Political Theory0
Autonomous Weapon Systems and Acting for the Right Reasons0
Culturally Diverse Societies and Genital Cutting Controversies0
Enlightened Beneficence: A Kantian Alternative to Effective Altruism0
Experimental Political Theory: Behavioural, Careful, Radical0
X-Phi and Theory Acceptance in Political Philosophy0
Is Belief in Political Obligation Ideological?0
A Service Conception of Democratic Authority0
Relational Egalitarianism and Intergenerational Justice: Reply to Sommers0
Compensation and Overcoming of Historical Injustice0
Levels of Burden Sharing for Interspecies Justice in Conservation0
Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models0
Predistribution: What It Is, and Why it Matters0
The Role of Moral Experts in Secret Policy0
Review of Christine Hobden’s Citizenship in a Globalised World0
Addiction and the Capability to Abstain0
Discrimination, Fairness, and the Use of Algorithms0
What Went Wrong with Saman’s Story? Cultural Practice, Individual Rights, Gender, and Political Polarization0
Rescuing Descriptive Legitimacy from Political Realism for Political Moralism0
Positional Goods and Social Equality: Examining the Convergence Thesis0
Comparative Historical Analysis in Political Theory0
Notes on Bilgrami’s Notion of Identity0
The Foundation of Liberty for the Normativity in Bernard Williams’s Realist Theory of Legitimacy0
Without Exemptions: Reconciling Equality with the Accommodation of Diversity0
Motivational Facts, Legitimacy, and the Justification of Political Ideals0
Self-Interest, Justification, and Moral Belief0
Adoption and the Right to Culture0
Intelligent Democracy: Responding to the New Democratic Scepticism0
Historic Injustices as Matters of the Present0
Power and Control: Stalking as Neo-Republican Domination0
When ‘Enough and as Good’ is Not Good Enough0
Defending Future Generations Against the Radical Egalitarian Impulse and Lemon Egalitarianism0
Ethical Expertise and Moral Authority0
‘Relevant Matching’ and the Use of Criminal Records by Employers0
What Should We Say to Denmark? Mentalism as an Essential Complement to Behavourism0
The Promise of Representative Democracy: Deliberative Responsiveness0
Does Individual Participation in the Global Public Sphere Matter?0
The Spectrum of Liability to Defensive Harm and the Case of Child Soldiers0
Animals, Distributive Justice, and Desert0
Why Deliberation and Voting Belong Together0
Entrapment and Manipulation0
On a Columnar Self: Two Senses of Expressing Partisanship0
Theories of Normative Legitimacy Beyond the State and the Role of their Conceptual Dimension: A Methodological Insight from Raz’s Service Conception of Authority0
Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’0
Prosecuting Politicians0
Wealth, Political Inequality, and Resilience: Revisiting the Democratic Argument for Limitarianism0
Ejection for Democracy Protection: On the Expulsion of EU Member States0
Nicholas Vrousalis: Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust0
Correction: The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm0
Consent and Behavioral Public Policies: A Social Choice Perspective0
Ambivalent Stereotypes0
Why Conscience Matters: A Theory of Conscience and Its Relevance to Conscientious Objection in Medicine0
Rethinking Democratic Decision-Making: Integrating Deliberation and Voting0
Can There be Relational Equality Across Generations? Or at All?0
All Things Considered, Should Egalitarian Movements Accept Philanthropic Funding?0
Review of Avia Pasternak’s Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoing? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)0
Exploitation without Fairness0
Life Sentence or Death Penalty? The Normative Case for Letting Criminals Pick their Poison0
Does Democratic Competence Require a Commitment to Electoral Democracy?0
Anti-Natalism and (The Right Kinds of) Environmental Attitudes0
Punishing the Last Citizens? On the Climate Necessity Defence0
Violence Against Persons, Political Commitment, and Civil Disobedience: A Reply to Adams0
Borders, Movement, and Global Egalitarianism0
Ethicisation and Reliance on Ethics Expertise0
Should the Justification of Protest Depend on its Cause?0
Legacies of Historical Injustice: What is Owed to the Victims of Past Injustices? Introduction to the Special Issue0
Social Equality and Democratic Authority0
Deliberation and Voting: An Institutional Account of the Legitimacy of Democratic Decision-Making Procedures0
Domination and Freedom: Quality, not Quantity0
Revised Normative Behaviourism: An Experimental Proposal0
Which Elections? A Dilemma for Proponents of the Duty to Vote0
Should Hostile Design Be Used To Prevent Begging, Loitering, and Rough Sleeping?0
The Semi-Future Democracy: Governing for the Future in Liberal Democracies0
Medical Institutions, Self-Governance, and the Right to Assisted Suicide0
Epistemic Democracy and Political Reconciliation0
Ignorance, Impairment and Quality of Will0
Is Just War Theory the Appropriate Framework for Assessing the Morality of Economic Sanctions?0
Why Civic Republicanism Remains a Statist Theory0
Uncontrolled Power: Independence and Markets in Republicanism0
Predistribution Revisited0
Correction: The Indirect Approach: Towards Non-Dominating Dementia Care0
Originary Temporality and the Possibility of Law0
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