CO-DUTIES: Democratic Duties, Collective Action, and the Greater Good after COVID-19

Members

Simon Reid-Henry

Audrey Kathleen Geissinger

Lise Endregard Hemat

Maria Gabrielsen Jumbert

Kristoffer Lidén

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik

CO-DUTIES aims to provide novel insights into the performance of individual duties in order to better understand how voluntary engagement in democratic societies may address large-scale collective action problems.

To achieve this primary objective the project poses three basic research questions, addressing its historical, political and normative aspects in turn:

How has the treatment of rights and duties in political and legal discourse changed in the post-1945 period such that imperfect duties of virtue, in particular, have lost their political status?
How were each of (vertical) civic duties, (horizontal) humanitarian duties, and (mixed) associative duties, understood, framed, and enacted during and after the Coronavirus lockdowns in three liberal democracies: Norway, France and the UK?
How can empirical understanding of this resurgence of duties inform a theoretical account of the prospects for collective action in response to “greater good” causes?

03/05/2021
Call for Applications: Three New PhD Positions at PRIO

PRIO invites applications for three Doctoral Researcher positions.

17/12/2020
COVID-19: Individual Duties and Collective Action - Funding in Place

How to better understand the relationship between individual duties and collective action in response to large-scale societal challenges.

Congratulations to Simon Reid-Henry and his team for funding from the Research Council of Norway for the three-year project CO-DUTIES: Democratic Duties, Collective Action, and the Greater Good after COVID-19. In addition to Simon, the project will include PRIO researchers Maria G. Jumbert, Kristiffor Lidén and Kristin B. Sandvik, as well as researchers at the Univeristy of Oslo, Queen Mary University of London and University of London Institute in Paris. The project plans to start up in July 2021.

Simon Reid-Henry, Sinead Dwyer, Christoph Benn & Ida Rødningen (2023)
Country Contributions to Global Public Goods for Health

PRIO Paper

Simon Reid-Henry, Valsamis Mitsilegas, Sophie Harman, Mario Slugan, David McCoy, Sydney Calkin, Aoife Monks, Gülnur Muradoglu & Stella Ladi (2022)
How to Trust in a Pandemic: Report of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) Working Group on COVID-19

Report - External Series

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik, Hans Petter Graver & Peter Scharff Smith (2021)
The Pomp of Popular Constitutional Outrage: The democratic struggle over the Norwegian Covid-19 curfew proposal

CO-DUTIES: Democratic Duties, Collective Action, and the Greater Good after COVID-19

Led by Simon Reid-Henry

Members

Country Contributions to Global Public Goods for Health

Smittestopp og smittesporing – hva har vi lært gjennom to år med pandemi?

CO-DUTIES Launch Workshop

How to Trust in a Pandemic: Report of the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) Working Group on COVID-19

Call for Applications: Three New PhD Positions at PRIO

The Pomp of Popular Constitutional Outrage: The democratic struggle over the Norwegian Covid-19 curfew proposal

Refugees and the Scope for Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccination

COVID-19: Individual Duties and Collective Action - Funding in Place