Matthew Braham
Biographic Data
| ID | 95587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Braham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Braham |
| SIGNATURE | BRAHAM M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Hamburg |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Voids or Fragmentation: Moral Responsibility For Collective Outcomes
Institutional rules create difficulties for the allocation of moral responsibility. One problem is the existence of responsibility voids, i.e. situations in which an outcome results from individual interactions but for which no one is responsible. Another is that responsibility can be fragmented in the sense that responsibility-bearing individuals may be responsible for different features of the outcome. This study examines both problems together…
Ordering the Right and the Good, Practically Speaking
Responsibility Voids: Responsibility Voids
We present evidence for the existence of ‘responsibility voids’ in committee decision‐making, that is, the existence of situations where no member of a committee can individually be held morally responsible for the outcome. We analyse three types of reasons (causal, normative and epistemic) for the emergence of responsibility voids, and show that each of them can occur in committees. But the conditions for these voids are so restrictive as to red…
Social Power and Social Causation: Towards a Formal Synthesis
Power, Freedom, and Voting
The Impossibility of a Preference-Based Power Index
This paper examines a recent debate in the literature on power indices in which classical measures such as the Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik, and Public Good indices have been criticized on the grounds that they do not take into account player preferences. It has been argued that an index that is blind to preferences misses a vital component of power, namely strategic interaction. In this vein, there has been an attempt to develop so-called strategic p…
Power and Preferences Again: A Reply to Napel and Widgrén
Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement: Reply to Critics and some Epistemological Considerations for Policy-making
This article examines the criticism that we received regarding our article “Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement” which was published in Volume 13, Number 2 of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA). In this reply we seek to clarify our position, pointing to distinctions between advocacy and policy analysis, between descriptive and normative statements, and to a need to examine not only the problems that the Roma face, but also thos…
Romani migrations and EU enlargement
This paper examines the root causes of recent attempts by central and eastern European (CEE) Roma to seek asylum in the European Union (EU) and considers their future migration potential and its implications for EU enlargement. While a westbound Roma migration is not favoured by current member states, instruments designed to discourage it will have but short‐term effect as after EU enlargement CEE Roma will have the right of free movement within …
Last Steps to Uhuru: An Eye-Witness Account of Namibia's Transition to Independence
The Impossibility of a Preference-Based Power Index
This paper examines a recent debate in the literature on power indices in which classical measures such as the Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik, and Public Good indices have been criticized on the grounds that they do not take into account player preferences. It has been argued that an index that is blind to preferences misses a vital component of power, namely strategic interaction. In this vein, there has been an attempt to develop so-called strategic p…
Romani migrations and EU enlargement
This paper examines the root causes of recent attempts by central and eastern European (CEE) Roma to seek asylum in the European Union (EU) and considers their future migration potential and its implications for EU enlargement. While a westbound Roma migration is not favoured by current member states, instruments designed to discourage it will have but short‐term effect as after EU enlargement CEE Roma will have the right of free movement within …
Responsibility Voids: Responsibility Voids
We present evidence for the existence of ‘responsibility voids’ in committee decision‐making, that is, the existence of situations where no member of a committee can individually be held morally responsible for the outcome. We analyse three types of reasons (causal, normative and epistemic) for the emergence of responsibility voids, and show that each of them can occur in committees. But the conditions for these voids are so restrictive as to red…
Voids or Fragmentation: Moral Responsibility For Collective Outcomes
Institutional rules create difficulties for the allocation of moral responsibility. One problem is the existence of responsibility voids, i.e. situations in which an outcome results from individual interactions but for which no one is responsible. Another is that responsibility can be fragmented in the sense that responsibility-bearing individuals may be responsible for different features of the outcome. This study examines both problems together…
Power and Preferences Again: A Reply to Napel and Widgrén
Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement: Reply to Critics and some Epistemological Considerations for Policy-making
This article examines the criticism that we received regarding our article “Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement” which was published in Volume 13, Number 2 of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA). In this reply we seek to clarify our position, pointing to distinctions between advocacy and policy analysis, between descriptive and normative statements, and to a need to examine not only the problems that the Roma face, but also thos…
Last Steps to Uhuru: An Eye-Witness Account of Namibia's Transition to Independence
Romani migrations and EU enlargement
This paper examines the root causes of recent attempts by central and eastern European (CEE) Roma to seek asylum in the European Union (EU) and considers their future migration potential and its implications for EU enlargement. While a westbound Roma migration is not favoured by current member states, instruments designed to discourage it will have but short‐term effect as after EU enlargement CEE Roma will have the right of free movement within …
Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement: Reply to Critics and some Epistemological Considerations for Policy-making
This article examines the criticism that we received regarding our article “Romani Migrations and EU Enlargement” which was published in Volume 13, Number 2 of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs (CRIA). In this reply we seek to clarify our position, pointing to distinctions between advocacy and policy analysis, between descriptive and normative statements, and to a need to examine not only the problems that the Roma face, but also thos…
The Impossibility of a Preference-Based Power Index
This paper examines a recent debate in the literature on power indices in which classical measures such as the Banzhaf, Shapley-Shubik, and Public Good indices have been criticized on the grounds that they do not take into account player preferences. It has been argued that an index that is blind to preferences misses a vital component of power, namely strategic interaction. In this vein, there has been an attempt to develop so-called strategic p…
Power and Preferences Again: A Reply to Napel and Widgrén
Social Power and Social Causation: Towards a Formal Synthesis
Power, Freedom, and Voting
Responsibility Voids: Responsibility Voids
We present evidence for the existence of ‘responsibility voids’ in committee decision‐making, that is, the existence of situations where no member of a committee can individually be held morally responsible for the outcome. We analyse three types of reasons (causal, normative and epistemic) for the emergence of responsibility voids, and show that each of them can occur in committees. But the conditions for these voids are so restrictive as to red…
Ordering the Right and the Good, Practically Speaking
Voids or Fragmentation: Moral Responsibility For Collective Outcomes
Institutional rules create difficulties for the allocation of moral responsibility. One problem is the existence of responsibility voids, i.e. situations in which an outcome results from individual interactions but for which no one is responsible. Another is that responsibility can be fragmented in the sense that responsibility-bearing individuals may be responsible for different features of the outcome. This study examines both problems together…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Physics (3 works)