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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fighting Political Corruption with the Citizens22
Let Them Eat Plants! Two Arguments for Raising Children on a (Predominantly) Plant-Based Diet18
Should Republicans be Interested in Exploitation?15
Intergenerational Distributive (Climate) Justice13
Book Review: Questioning Punishment, Henrique Carvalho and Anastasia Chamberlen11
Populist Bullshit: A Normative Theory of Populist Communication9
Living in Disagreement: Public Reason and Jurisdictional Rights8
Ought the State Use Non-Consensual Treatment to Restore Trial Competence?8
Less is More: A Normative Evaluation of the ECtHR’s Protection of Commercial Speech8
Egalitarian Machine Learning7
The Service Conception, Specification Problem and Its Moral Foundations7
Review of Sharon Krause’s Eco-Emancipation: An Earthly Politics of Freedom7
Correction: Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’6
What Is Wrong with the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s Definition of Antisemitism?6
How Should We Distribute Education in Property-Owning Democracy and Liberal Socialism?6
Correction to: Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise6
The Morality of Risking and the Reliability of Rights5
Plural Approaches to Theorizing Justice and Legitimacy in Europe5
Justice and Migration. Europe’s Most Cruel Dilemma5
Group (Non) Identity and Historical Justice5
Lottocracy Versus Democracy5
Policy-Development and Deference to Moral Experts5
Hessler’s New Feminist Approach to Human Rights Theorizing5
Should Traditional Representative Institutions be Abolished? A Critical Comment on Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy5
The Indeterminacy of the Principles of Justice: The Debate on Property-Owing Democracy Versus the Welfare State and the Ideal of Social Union4
Multiculturalism and Migration: Reconfiguring the Debate4
Mono No Aware: How Conservatives Should do Change4
Backward-Looking Principles of Climate Justice: The Unjustified Move from the Polluter Pays Principle to the Beneficiary Pays Principle4
Understanding Reciprocity and the Importance of Civic Friendship4
Fabienne Peter, The Grounds of Political Legitimacy,4
Random Selection, Democracy and Citizen Expertise4
Can Experimental Political Philosophers be Modest in their Aims?4
AI and the Social Sciences: Why All Variables are Not Created Equal4
Do Immigrants have a Moral Duty to Learn the Host Society’s Language?4
Democratic Innovation Beyond Contestation: The Realist Case for Authorial Empowerment4
Limitarianism, Upper Limits, and Minimal Thresholds4
EU Citizens’ Access to Welfare Rights: How (not) to Think About Unreasonable Burdens?4
One Year on: Michael Sandel’s Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020)3
Relating to Each Other as Free and as Equals: Beyond the Egalitarian Justification of Democracy3
On the Individuation of Laws and the Interpretation-Construction Distinction3
Ideal Theory for a Complex World3
Is There a Right to Revelatory Autonomy?3
Pluralising (Not Limiting) the Agent of Change: A Task for Real-World Political Philosophy3
Review of Social Cohesion Contested by Dan Swain and Petr Urban3
A Duty to Vote? The Polycentric Alternative3
Injustice without Victims or Arguments from Generational Overlap?: A Reply to Gosseries on Non-Identity3
A Right to Break the Law? On the Political Function and Moral Grounds of Civil Disobedience3
The Duty to Edit the Human Germline3
Blaming Reasonable Wrongdoers2
Review of Lars Moen’s The Republican Dilemma: Promoting Freedom in a Modern Society2
Christian Schemmel: Justice and Egalitarian Relations2
Cultural Diversity, Integration and Harm Protection in Liberal Societies2
When Does Balancing Justify Religious Exemptions? The Case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission2
The Rhythm of Justice: On Temporal Indeterminacy in Normative Reasoning2
Is Approximation of an Ideal Defensible?1
The Wrong Inference to the Best Explanation for Anti-Natalism1
Is Lack of Literature Engagement a Reason for Rejecting a Paper in Philosophy?1
Using (Un)Fair Algorithms in an Unjust World1
Degrees of Legitimacy1
Unequal Turnout and Political Equality1
Proportionality in Its Place: Weighted Internal Deliberation1
Distributive Justice, Political Legitimacy, and Independent Central Banks1
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
Paternalism and Evidence of Incapacity: Taking Reasons Seriously1
Nudging Voters and Encouraging Pre-commitment: Beyond Mandatory Turnout1
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
Pro Tanto Wrongness and the Case of Whistleblowing1
Rectifying Historical Territorial Injustices1
Migration as Reparation for Colonialism1
Democratic Legitimacy and Decisions for the Future1
On the Very Concept of Discrimination: Towards a Radical Publicity of Normative Theorizing1
Multiculturalism as Harm Reduction1
Darrel Moellendorf. Mobilizing Hope: Climate Change and Global Poverty, Oxford University Press, 2022, ISBN: 9780190875619, 248 pp.1
What Is the Point of Self-Blame?1
Legal Pluralism and the Limits of Law1
How Could They Let This Happen? Cover Ups, Complicity, and the Problem of Accountability1
Must a Just Distribution of Emissions Shares Respect Territorial Claims to Terrestrial Sink Capacity?1
What Does it Take to be Oneself? Raz, Frankfurt and Being a Person1
The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory: A Methodological Approach1
The Moral Argument Against Monarchy (Absolute or Constitutional)1
Normative Behaviourism and Action-Guidance: The Challenge of the Climate Crisis1
The Mutual Reinforcement of Populism and Post-Truth in Undermining Deliberative Democracy1
An Ethical Assessment of Individual-Targeting Sports Sanctions on Russian Athletes1
Trustworthy Science Advice: The Case of Policy Recommendations1
Heterogeneous Electoral Constituencies Against Legislative Gridlock0
Does Democratic Competence Require a Commitment to Electoral Democracy?0
Compensation and Overcoming of Historical Injustice0
Consent and Behavioral Public Policies: A Social Choice Perspective0
Rawls and Economic Liberties0
Revised Normative Behaviourism: An Experimental Proposal0
Editorial0
Ambivalent Stereotypes0
Legacies of Historical Injustice: What is Owed to the Victims of Past Injustices? Introduction to the Special Issue0
Anti-Natalism and (The Right Kinds of) Environmental Attitudes0
What Libertarians (Should) Think About Inheritance Taxation0
The Role of Moral Experts in Secret Policy0
Exploitation as Domination? A Response to Bryan and Kouris0
Justice and the EU: Productive or Relational Reciprocity?0
The Promise of Representative Democracy: Deliberative Responsiveness0
Referendums, Initiatives, and Voters’ Accountability0
Intelligent Democracy: Responding to the New Democratic Scepticism0
Pietro Maffettone, International Toleration: A Theory (Oxford: Routledge, 2020), pp. 1860
A Service Conception of Democratic Authority0
Prospective Employees and their Criminal Records: Challenges for a Relevant Matching Approach0
On a Columnar Self: Two Senses of Expressing Partisanship0
Ejection for Democracy Protection: On the Expulsion of EU Member States0
Why Civic Republicanism Remains a Statist Theory0
Consequentialism and the Role of Practices in Political Philosophy0
Towards an Epistemology of ‘Speciesist Ignorance’0
Wealth, Political Inequality, and Resilience: Revisiting the Democratic Argument for Limitarianism0
Enlightened Beneficence: A Kantian Alternative to Effective Altruism0
Nicholas Vrousalis: Exploitation as Domination: What Makes Capitalism Unjust0
What Went Wrong with Saman’s Story? Cultural Practice, Individual Rights, Gender, and Political Polarization0
The Foundation of Liberty for the Normativity in Bernard Williams’s Realist Theory of Legitimacy0
Why Conscience Matters: A Theory of Conscience and Its Relevance to Conscientious Objection in Medicine0
All Things Considered, Should Egalitarian Movements Accept Philanthropic Funding?0
Publicity’s Misinformation Problem0
Addiction and the Capability to Abstain0
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
Positional Goods and Social Equality: Examining the Convergence Thesis0
Originary Temporality and the Possibility of Law0
Ethicisation and Reliance on Ethics Expertise0
Rescue Missions in the Mediterranean and the Legitimacy of the EU’s Border Regime0
Beyond Choice: A Non-Ideal Feminist Approach to Body Modification0
Worries About Philosopher Experts0
Why Ethics Commissions? Four Normative Models0
Normativity, Legitimacy, and Strengthening Migration Justice Mechanisms: A Reply to My Critics0
Three Lessons for and from Algorithmic Discrimination0
X-Phi and Theory Acceptance in Political Philosophy0
When ‘Enough and as Good’ is Not Good Enough0
Should Hostile Design Be Used To Prevent Begging, Loitering, and Rough Sleeping?0
Rethinking Democratic Decision-Making: Integrating Deliberation and Voting0
Ethical Expertise and Moral Authority0
Borders, Movement, and Global Egalitarianism0
Animals, Distributive Justice, and Desert0
Discrimination, Fairness, and the Use of Algorithms0
On Being a Realist about Migration0
Philip Pettit: The State0
Is Belief in Political Obligation Ideological?0
The Semi-Future Democracy: Governing for the Future in Liberal Democracies0
Experimental Political Theory: Behavioural, Careful, Radical0
The Need for an EU Expulsion Mechanism: Democratic Backsliding and the Failure of Article 70
Animal Consent and the Ambit of Law0
The Fairness in Algorithmic Fairness0
Proportionality without Inequality: Defending Lifetime Political Equality through Storable Votes0
Correction: The Indirect Approach: Towards Non-Dominating Dementia Care0
What Should We Say to Denmark? Mentalism as an Essential Complement to Behavourism0
Theories of Normative Legitimacy Beyond the State and the Role of their Conceptual Dimension: A Methodological Insight from Raz’s Service Conception of Authority0
Adoption and the Right to Culture0
Deception, Sex, and the Law: The Case for Criminalising Sex-By-Deception0
Notes on Bilgrami’s Notion of Identity0
Can There be Relational Equality Across Generations? Or at All?0
Are Rights of Nature Manifesto Rights (And is That a Problem)?0
Autonomous Weapon Systems and Acting for the Right Reasons0
Social Equality and Democratic Authority0
Without Exemptions: Reconciling Equality with the Accommodation of Diversity0
The Spectrum of Liability to Defensive Harm and the Case of Child Soldiers0
Law in Society: Defending Hart0
Domination and Freedom: Quality, not Quantity0
Why and How Should the European Union Defend its Values?0
Prosecuting Politicians0
Historic Injustices as Matters of the Present0
Violence Against Persons, Political Commitment, and Civil Disobedience: A Reply to Adams0
Epistemic Democracy and Political Reconciliation0
Culturally Diverse Societies and Genital Cutting Controversies0
The Right to Expressive Voting Methods0
Comparative Historical Analysis in Political Theory0
Medical Institutions, Self-Governance, and the Right to Assisted Suicide0
Motivational Facts, Legitimacy, and the Justification of Political Ideals0
Levels of Burden Sharing for Interspecies Justice in Conservation0
Does Individual Participation in the Global Public Sphere Matter?0
Which Elections? A Dilemma for Proponents of the Duty to Vote0
Should the Justification of Protest Depend on its Cause?0
Ignorance, Impairment and Quality of Will0
The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm0
Philosophy, Policy, and Moral Expertise0
Review of Luigina Mortari’s The Philosophy of Care0
Uncontrolled Power: Independence and Markets in Republicanism0
Why Deliberation and Voting Belong Together0
How I Would have been Differently Treated. Discrimination Through the Lens of Counterfactual Fairness0
Defending Future Generations Against the Radical Egalitarian Impulse and Lemon Egalitarianism0
‘Relevant Matching’ and the Use of Criminal Records by Employers0
Two Metaverse Dystopias0
Why Normative Behaviourism Does Not Improve Political Realism0
Relational Egalitarianism and Intergenerational Justice: Reply to Sommers0
The Language of Dignity in International Law0
Predistribution Revisited0
Predistribution: What It Is, and Why it Matters0
Entrapment and Manipulation0
Punishing the Last Citizens? On the Climate Necessity Defence0
Review of Christine Hobden’s Citizenship in a Globalised World0
Correction to: Justice and the EU: Productive or Relational Reciprocity?0
Deliberation and Voting: An Institutional Account of the Legitimacy of Democratic Decision-Making Procedures0
Care as a Thick Ethical Concept0
Plural Visions of Law: The Legacy of Joseph Raz0
Correction: The Fair Chances in Algorithmic Fairness: A Response to Holm0
Self-Interest, Justification, and Moral Belief0
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