Eerik Lagerspetz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 883052 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Eerik Lagerspetz |
| PRENOMES | Eerik |
| SOBRENOME | Lagerspetz |
| ASSINATURA | LAGERSPETZ E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Turku |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1986 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Kelsen on Democracy and Majority Decision
This paper explicates some aspects of Hans Kelsen’s defence of democracy. Kelsen’s aim was to formulate a realistic normative alternative to the democratic ideal derived from Rousseau. He provided two, independent arguments for majoritarian democracy. First, the validity of majority principle could be derived from epistemological relativism. Second, majority principle maximized individual liberty. The latter argument is based on Kelsen’s own defi…
Social Choice and Democratic Values
Plurality, approval, or Borda? A nineteenth century dispute on voting rules
Democracy and the All-Affected Principle
The All-Affected Principle has an important status in recent theoretical discussions on democracy. According to the principle, all who are affected by a decision should have a right to participate into making it. The principle is supposed to ground the right or optimal boundaries of democratic decision-making units. This paper is basically a critique of the principle. In the first parts of the paper, the All-Affected Principle is distinguished fr…
Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
Wisdom and numbers
There is a permanent tension between the requirements of substantive goodness or wisdom and those of formal legitimacy in public decision-making. This article charts the various attempts to reconcile the two requirements within decision rules. First, the history of decision rules from medieval times to the 19th century is briefly reviewed. Second, it is shown that the most popular contemporary attempt to justify a decision principle in epistemic …
Was Kant wrong? Some Republican Reflections on War and Peace
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Is Political Theory Politically Interesting
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
The modes of political theory
John Searle’s Social Ontology
The theory presented in John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality has a lot in common with the conventionalist view of institutions. Conventionalism, however, can explain how there can be institutional facts without pre-existing rules, and why people comply with institutional rules
The Philosophy of Democracy and the Paradoxes of Majority Rule
Social Choice in the Real World II
The empirical relevance of the theoretical results of social choice theory is still unclear. The most radical thesis, put forth by William Riker, is that politics is a highly unstable process, characterized by preference cycles and strategic voting. This article ‐ a continuation of an earlier article published in this journal ‐ examines the Finnish presidential election in 1925, 1931, 1937 and 1982. The conclusion is that preference cycle and str…
Paradoxes and representation
Individualism in Social Science
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology. By Rajeev Bharcava. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 271. Price not given.) Eerik Lagerspetz Eerik Lagerspetz University of Turku Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 174, January 1994, Pages 124–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220158 Published: 01 Jan…
Social Choice in the Real World
The discussion of strategic voting and agenda manipulation tends to be highly abstract. Most real‐world examples are either artificial or politically insignificant; the few paradigmatic examples which do exist are discussed again and again. This is one reason why many empirically minded political scientists often ignore the whole social choice approach. The purpose of this article is to focus on a single event ‐ the election of the Finnish Presid…
Reflexive predictions and strategic actions
Pufendorf on collective decisions
Social Choice in the Real World
The discussion of strategic voting and agenda manipulation tends to be highly abstract. Most real‐world examples are either artificial or politically insignificant; the few paradigmatic examples which do exist are discussed again and again. This is one reason why many empirically minded political scientists often ignore the whole social choice approach. The purpose of this article is to focus on a single event ‐ the election of the Finnish Presid…
Social Choice in the Real World II
The empirical relevance of the theoretical results of social choice theory is still unclear. The most radical thesis, put forth by William Riker, is that politics is a highly unstable process, characterized by preference cycles and strategic voting. This article ‐ a continuation of an earlier article published in this journal ‐ examines the Finnish presidential election in 1925, 1931, 1937 and 1982. The conclusion is that preference cycle and str…
Paradoxes and representation
Plurality, approval, or Borda? A nineteenth century dispute on voting rules
Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
Wisdom and numbers
There is a permanent tension between the requirements of substantive goodness or wisdom and those of formal legitimacy in public decision-making. This article charts the various attempts to reconcile the two requirements within decision rules. First, the history of decision rules from medieval times to the 19th century is briefly reviewed. Second, it is shown that the most popular contemporary attempt to justify a decision principle in epistemic …
Pufendorf on collective decisions
The Philosophy of Democracy and the Paradoxes of Majority Rule
Reflexive predictions and strategic actions
Pufendorf on collective decisions
Reflexive predictions and strategic actions
Social Choice in the Real World
The discussion of strategic voting and agenda manipulation tends to be highly abstract. Most real‐world examples are either artificial or politically insignificant; the few paradigmatic examples which do exist are discussed again and again. This is one reason why many empirically minded political scientists often ignore the whole social choice approach. The purpose of this article is to focus on a single event ‐ the election of the Finnish Presid…
Individualism in Social Science
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Individualism in Social Science: Forms and Limits of a Methodology. By Rajeev Bharcava. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. viii + 271. Price not given.) Eerik Lagerspetz Eerik Lagerspetz University of Turku Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 174, January 1994, Pages 124–126, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220158 Published: 01 Jan…
Paradoxes and representation
The Philosophy of Democracy and the Paradoxes of Majority Rule
Social Choice in the Real World II
The empirical relevance of the theoretical results of social choice theory is still unclear. The most radical thesis, put forth by William Riker, is that politics is a highly unstable process, characterized by preference cycles and strategic voting. This article ‐ a continuation of an earlier article published in this journal ‐ examines the Finnish presidential election in 1925, 1931, 1937 and 1982. The conclusion is that preference cycle and str…
John Searle’s Social Ontology
The theory presented in John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality has a lot in common with the conventionalist view of institutions. Conventionalism, however, can explain how there can be institutional facts without pre-existing rules, and why people comply with institutional rules
The modes of political theory
Is Political Theory Politically Interesting
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Was Kant wrong? Some Republican Reflections on War and Peace
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Wisdom and numbers
There is a permanent tension between the requirements of substantive goodness or wisdom and those of formal legitimacy in public decision-making. This article charts the various attempts to reconcile the two requirements within decision rules. First, the history of decision rules from medieval times to the 19th century is briefly reviewed. Second, it is shown that the most popular contemporary attempt to justify a decision principle in epistemic …
Albert Heckscher on collective decision-making
Democracy and the All-Affected Principle
The All-Affected Principle has an important status in recent theoretical discussions on democracy. According to the principle, all who are affected by a decision should have a right to participate into making it. The principle is supposed to ground the right or optimal boundaries of democratic decision-making units. This paper is basically a critique of the principle. In the first parts of the paper, the All-Affected Principle is distinguished fr…
Social Choice and Democratic Values
Plurality, approval, or Borda? A nineteenth century dispute on voting rules
Kelsen on Democracy and Majority Decision
This paper explicates some aspects of Hans Kelsen’s defence of democracy. Kelsen’s aim was to formulate a realistic normative alternative to the democratic ideal derived from Rousseau. He provided two, independent arguments for majoritarian democracy. First, the validity of majority principle could be derived from epistemological relativism. Second, majority principle maximized individual liberty. The latter argument is based on Kelsen’s own defi…
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