PMR — pp. 1-25 2026-08-12 Original Should we stay or should we go? Implications of trust in the municipality for second-generation migrants’ behavioural intentions towards the municipality
APSR — pp. 1-13 2026-05-14 Original The Politics of Privilege: Discrimination, Monopolized Social Rights, and Reform
ANDREW SABL
Abstract
This article analyzes three kinds of privilege—roughly, the monopoly or near-monopoly of a prized social good by a group—in terms of the political barriers facing attempts to reform them. Extending previous work, it distinguishes among discrimination privileges, which are zero-sum and relative, benefiting some groups at others’ expense; monopolized social right privileges, involving goods enjoyed only by some that can and should be extended to all; and differential treatment privileges, involving disagreement over whether a good currently monopolized by some should be extended to all or to none. The political barriers to reforming discrimination privilege involve group interest; those to reforming monopolized social rights include privilege, ignorance, cost, priorities, policy uncertainty, and the psychological wage. Differential treatment privilege is complicated. An exercise in applied political realism, this article treats normative categories as political inputs rather than philosophical conclusions and seeks to demonstrate the insights enabled by doing so.
JOP 88/2 pp. 618-630 2026-04-01 Original “It’s a Gender Thing”: The Wrongdoing of Stereotype Articulation
Lasse Nielsen, Mathilde Cecchini
Abstract
In this article, we study wrongdoing features of discrimination. We develop grounded moral theory as an analytical tool to explore the wrongdoing of stereotype articulations and apply that to cases of stereotype articulation by teachers in primary school. Since cases of wrongful discrimination refer to stereotypes—such as ethnicity and gender—articulations of these stereotypes will expose the wrongdoing features of discrimination. Moreover, focusing on stereotype articulations allows us to get close to the contextual aspects from which the wrongdoing features take form. From our analysis, we conclude: (1) that wrongful discrimination is not one phenomenon but rather a set of different types of wrongdoing, (2) that wrongdoing features such as harm and disrespect, traditionally used to account for wrongful discrimination, are often coexisting and interacting in stereotype articulations in practice, and (3) that the shape of wrongdoing depends on contextual circumstances. We believe this brings novel insights to discrimination theory.