The Second CO3 Podcast Episode Focuses on Resilience
- johannesjauhiainen
- Oct 31
- 1 min read
The second episode of the CO3 Project is fresh out of the oven!
This episode focuses on resilience, featuring expert insights from Ruzha Smilova Program Director (Political Analysis) at the Centre for Liberal Strategies.
According to Smilova, there is a gap in contemportary social contract theories, which leaves little conceptual or normative space for the concept of personal desert.
This concept has nothing to do with something sweet you eat at the end of a meal. Instead, it refers to the idea that the distribution of benefits and burdens in a just society should at least partly depend on citizens' own actions, choices, or character.
Despite its absence from contemporary theories, personal desert is important in the social contract context as it increases citizens’ incentives to embrace the social contract, which in turn strengthens societal resilience and democracy while weakening popular support for authoritarian tendencies.
For more on this, tune in to the brilliant CO3 Podcast produced by Tugce Ercetin, Assistant Professor and Vice-chair of Department at Istanbul Bilgi University.
