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Is Partisanship Dysfunctional for Representative Institutions?

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As political institutions, representative assemblies can be seen as rule‐governed structures of interrelated roles with power mandates, which elected officeholders must exercise in accordance with the normative values justifying the institutions' establishment.
Chiara Destri
wiley   +1 more source

Consigning Injustice to History with Political Apologies

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Failures to remember the past properly can constitute a range of different wrongs. In this article, we identify a novel kind of wrong that often occurs through political apologies: consigning an injustice to history. Consigning acknowledges that a historical injustice took place but denies that it has any ongoing relevance for the present ...
Alfred Archer, Benjamin Matheson
wiley   +1 more source

No Art on a Dead Planet: Political Iconoclasm as Climate Activism

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A trend has recently emerged among climate activists of attacking artworks as a means of registering protest. I analyse this mode of protest, which I term political iconoclasm, and offer a novel partial defence of political iconoclasm as a protest strategy for environmental activists. I focus on Just Stop Oil's attack on van Gogh's Sunflowers.
Alice Madeleine Hilder Jarvis
wiley   +1 more source

The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some critics worry that the average quality of public discourse in liberal democracies is deplorably low. An example of this is that superficial media content enjoys a much broader audience than highly informative content. States can take various measures to improve the quality of public discourse.
Malte Jauch
wiley   +1 more source

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