Marcus Carlsen Häggrot Postdoctoral Fellow Aufenthalt am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: September 2018 – August 2019Forschungsthema am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: »Territorial Represenation, Public Reason, And Cultural Justice«Projektbeschreibung: Many contemporary democracies practice forms of representation that involve two features: parliamentary representatives are returned from geographically defined electoral districts, and votes are obligatorily counted in the voters’ district of residence. But the rationale and morality of this territorial mode of representation remain undertheorised and my current research project seeks to fill this gap. It is particularly concerned to explore three inter-related puzzles: First, what reasons of principle might there be to endorse territorial representation? Second, can territorial representation be just in a context of religious and cultural pluralism given that such forms of representation can make it difficult for geographically dispersed minorities – e.g. religious minorities, nomadic populations, immigrant groups – to gain representation in parliament? And third, is the territorial mode of representation compatible with the liberal principle of public reason, which states that public policy must be justified with reasons that all reasonable citizens can accept? Or is it rather the case that arguments in favour of territorial representation rest on reasonably rejectable assumptions – e.g. an assumption that citizens are relatively sedentary and/or that citizens’ interests are tied to, and profoundly structured by, their place of residence? (Marcus Carlsen Häggrot) Förderung des Aufenthaltes: DFG-Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata. Rethinking Justice − Applied and Global«Zusammenarbeit: Marcus Carlsen Häggrot folgt einer Einladung von Professor Rainer Forst und der an der Goethe-Universität angesiedelten Kollegforschergruppe »Justitia Amplificata Centre for Advanced Studies«. Wissenschaftliches Profil von Marcus Carlsen HäggrotMarcus Carlsen Häggrot hat 2017 am Department of Politics and IR an der University of Oxford promoviert. Seine Dissertation trägt den Titel »Nomads in the Liberal State: Liberal Approaches to the Problem of Roma and Traveller Itinerancy«.Website: Weitere Informationen zu Marcus Carlsen Häggrot finden Sie hier. Forschungsschwerpunkte: Demokratietheorie; Demokratische Institutionen: Minderheitenrechte; Mobile Minderheitengruppen Veröffentlichungen (Auswahl):
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