Outputs (12)

How to Confront No Ordinary Danger (2025)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2025). How to Confront No Ordinary Danger. Journal of Democracy, 36(1), 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1353/jod.2025.a947890

This essay examines the debate over whether states can legitimately use emergency powers to address climate change. The author challenges Lazar and Wallace's arguments against climate authoritarianism, arguing that climate change constitutes a genuin... Read More about How to Confront No Ordinary Danger.

The Promises and Pitfalls of Taxing Carbon (2024)
Other
(2024). The Promises and Pitfalls of Taxing Carbon. Santiago

A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change (2024)
Journal Article
Steel, D., Belotti, G., Mittiga, R., & Mintz-Woo, K. (2024). A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change. https://doi.org/10.1177/09632719241255857

Despite growing interest in risks of societal collapse due to anthropogenic climate change, there exists no consensus about how collapse should be understood. In this article, we critically examine existing definitions and argue that none adequately... Read More about A Dynamic Collapse Concept for Climate Change.

Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse (2024)
Book
Mittiga, R. (2024). Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192868879.001.0001

In a 2018 special report, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change—the world’s leading climate research body—warned of “catastrophic” outcomes unless states were to undertake “unprecedented” action “across all sectors of society” before 2030.... Read More about Climate Change as Political Catastrophe: Before Collapse.

Climate change and political science - a collection of articles from Cambridge University Press (2023)
Other
Climate change and political science - a collection of articles from Cambridge University Press. Cambridge

Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change (2021)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2022). Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change. American Political Science Review, 116(3), 998-1011. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055421001301

Is authoritarian power ever legitimate? The contemporary political theory literature—which largely conceptualizes legitimacy in terms of democracy or basic rights—would seem to suggest not. I argue, however, that there exists another, overlooked aspe... Read More about Political Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and Climate Change.

Ranking the Regimes in Aristotle's Politics: The Four-Principles Approach (2020)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2021). Ranking the Regimes in Aristotle's Politics: The Four-Principles Approach. Review of Politics, 83(1), 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1017/s003467052000087x

There is a long-standing debate over which constitution Aristotle regards as best in the <jats:italic>Politics</jats:italic>. I attempt to clarify his view by reconstructing four principles he uses to assess constitutions, in both ideal and more ordi... Read More about Ranking the Regimes in Aristotle's Politics: The Four-Principles Approach.

Material scarcity and scalar justice (2020)
Journal Article
Adams, M., & Mittiga, R. (2021). Material scarcity and scalar justice. Philosophical studies : an international journal for philosophy in the analytical tradition, 178(7), 2237-2256. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-020-01539-3

We defend a scalar theory of the relationship between material scarcity and justice. As scarcity increases beyond a specified threshold, we argue that deontological egalitarian constraints should be gradually relaxed and consequentialist consideratio... Read More about Material scarcity and scalar justice.

What’s the Problem with Geo-engineering? (2019)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2019). What’s the Problem with Geo-engineering?. Social Theory and Practice, 45(3), 471-499. https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract201992768

Many feel a sense of aversion and tragedy about proposals for engineering the climate. Precautionary concerns only partly explain these feelings. For a fuller understanding, we need a thicker conception of the values and ends of political society tha... Read More about What’s the Problem with Geo-engineering?.

What's in a world? Du Bois and Heidegger on politics, aesthetics, and foundings (2018)
Journal Article
Mittiga, R. (2019). What's in a world? Du Bois and Heidegger on politics, aesthetics, and foundings. Contemporary Political Theory, 18, 180-201. https://doi.org/10.1057/S41296-018-0281-9

Central to W.E.B. Du Bois’s political theory is a conception of “world” remarkably similar to that put forward, years later, by Martin Heidegger. This point is more methodological than historical: I claim that approaching Du Bois’s work as a source,... Read More about What's in a world? Du Bois and Heidegger on politics, aesthetics, and foundings.