Book chapter for the volume "Laudato Si': El cuidado de la casa común, una conversión necesaria a... more Book chapter for the volume "Laudato Si': El cuidado de la casa común, una conversión necesaria a la ecología humana", edited by Federico Lombardi SJ and Fernando Sánchez Campos.
Pope Francis transformed the climate change debate in 2015 by publishing his groundbreaking encyc... more Pope Francis transformed the climate change debate in 2015 by publishing his groundbreaking encyclical Laudato Si’, being widely credited by analysts and heads of state for raising the level of ambition of the Paris Climate Agreement by framing the ecological crisis in moral terms. This paper analyzes Pope Francis's contribution to highlight both the urgency and the injustice of the climate crisis. In doing so, the essay highlights the unique opportunity of world religions to enhance climate policy by stressing the moral imperative to take action.
Paper for the seminar "Laudato Si' and the Path to COP22", held at the Pontifical Academy of the ... more Paper for the seminar "Laudato Si' and the Path to COP22", held at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences on 28 September 2016, focusing on those aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ most relevant to the Catholic Church’s engagement in the COP22 summit and beyond.
Democracy is an almost universal ideal, being enshrined in a huge majority of the constitutions a... more Democracy is an almost universal ideal, being enshrined in a huge majority of the constitutions around the world, but it has proven very hard to implement in practice. A fundamental question in political science is how to measure democracy, a contested issue that remains unsettled with some scholars advocating for minimalist approaches and others arguing for maximalist ones. In this paper I will start by analyzing the theoretical debate about the measurement of democracy, reviewing the arguments supporting the different approaches, to then analyze one of the maximalist indices: the Democracy Index of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). I will enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of the EIU Index by contrasting it with the one by Freedom House, and will conclude by suggesting some methodological changes to tackle the severe disadvantages it has, in terms of validity, reliability and legitimacy.
Book chapter for the volume "Laudato Si': El cuidado de la casa común, una conversión necesaria a... more Book chapter for the volume "Laudato Si': El cuidado de la casa común, una conversión necesaria a la ecología humana", edited by Federico Lombardi SJ and Fernando Sánchez Campos.
Pope Francis transformed the climate change debate in 2015 by publishing his groundbreaking encyc... more Pope Francis transformed the climate change debate in 2015 by publishing his groundbreaking encyclical Laudato Si’, being widely credited by analysts and heads of state for raising the level of ambition of the Paris Climate Agreement by framing the ecological crisis in moral terms. This paper analyzes Pope Francis's contribution to highlight both the urgency and the injustice of the climate crisis. In doing so, the essay highlights the unique opportunity of world religions to enhance climate policy by stressing the moral imperative to take action.
Paper for the seminar "Laudato Si' and the Path to COP22", held at the Pontifical Academy of the ... more Paper for the seminar "Laudato Si' and the Path to COP22", held at the Pontifical Academy of the Sciences on 28 September 2016, focusing on those aspects of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ most relevant to the Catholic Church’s engagement in the COP22 summit and beyond.
Democracy is an almost universal ideal, being enshrined in a huge majority of the constitutions a... more Democracy is an almost universal ideal, being enshrined in a huge majority of the constitutions around the world, but it has proven very hard to implement in practice. A fundamental question in political science is how to measure democracy, a contested issue that remains unsettled with some scholars advocating for minimalist approaches and others arguing for maximalist ones. In this paper I will start by analyzing the theoretical debate about the measurement of democracy, reviewing the arguments supporting the different approaches, to then analyze one of the maximalist indices: the Democracy Index of the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). I will enumerate the advantages and disadvantages of the EIU Index by contrasting it with the one by Freedom House, and will conclude by suggesting some methodological changes to tackle the severe disadvantages it has, in terms of validity, reliability and legitimacy.
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