Marcus Agnafors's research while affiliated with Högskolan i Borås and other places
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Publications (6)
This article examines the idea of disjunctive rights—an idea first suggested by Joel Feinberg and more recently advocated by Richard Arneson. Using a hypothetical scenario to bring forward a conflict between two rights that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled, the suggestion that the conflict can be solved by describing the right-holders as holding...
The relationship between libertarianism and state is a contested one. Despite pressing full and strict ownership of one’s person and any justly acquired goods, many libertarians have suggested ways in which a state, albeit limited, can be regarded as just. Peter Vallentyne has proposed that all plausible versions of libertarianism are compatible wi...
Concepts such as “quality of government” and “good governance” refer to a desired character of the exercise of public authority. Recently the interest in good governance, the quality of government, and similar concepts has increased considerably. However, despite this increasing interest and use, an adequate definition of the concept of quality of...
It is often argued that Michael Walzer’s theory of social criticism, which underpins his theory of justice, is not much of a theory at all, but rather an impressionistic collection of historical anecdotes. Contrary to this perception, I argue that Walzer’s method can be accurately described as a version of John Rawls’ well-known method of wide refl...
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... An advantage of defining corruption as a lack of impartiality on the output side of politics is that this constitutes a (relatively) clear definition which facilitates the identification of benchmarks that can be used to determine what should and should not be counted as corruption. A downside is that the type of definitions employed in the thesis have been criticised for having an exclusive focus on the implementation of decisions (i.e., the output side of politics), while ignoring corruption in the decisionmaking process that precedes implementation (i.e., the input side of politics) (Sparling 2018;Agnafors 2013). Although it can be argued that corruption in the implementation of policy constitutes a more serious obstacle to human wellbeing in a global perspective (Rothstein 2011, Ch. 2 and Ch. ...
