Rate My Professor Naima Chahboun

Naima Chahboun is a researcher in the Department of Political Science at Stockholm University, contributing to the field of Political Science with a focus on political theory. Her research interests encompass methods in political theory, the relation between facts and norms, feasibility constraints in political theory, ideal versus nonideal theory, and responses to predictable noncompliance. She also engages in teaching areas such as qualitative methods, the study of democracy, the politics of equality, human rights, and academic reading and writing, including supervision of bachelor's theses. Chahboun completed her PhD at Stockholm University in 2020, with the dissertation Art of the Possible? Feasibility and Compliance in Ideal and Nonideal Theory, published as Stockholm Studies in Politics 191. Earlier, she served as a visiting research fellow at Brown University from February to May 2015, sponsored by Professor David Estlund.

Currently, Chahboun leads the research project Trade-offs in Demand-side Climate Mitigation: Political Feasibility, Justice and Legitimacy (2024-2027), funded by the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation with 8 million SEK. This initiative, in collaboration with Eva Erman and Niklas Möller from the Department of Philosophy, investigates the political feasibility of demand-side climate mitigation strategies targeting consumer-end GHG emissions, develops theoretical frameworks for trade-offs between justice, legitimacy, and feasibility, and provides policy recommendations. Her previous postdoctoral project, Slack-taking as Effective Rights Protection: The Cases of Refugee Admission and Climate Mitigation (2022-2023), was funded by the Anna Ahlström och Ellen Terserus stiftelse. She has received grants from Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse (2023, 2019, 2014), Widar Bagges stiftelse (2019), Stiftelsen Siamon (2019), and Elisabeth och Herman Rhodins minnesfond (2014). Key publications include "Perverse Incentives, Justice, and Domination: Slack-taking as Chicken Game" (Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2025), "Louder Than Words? Why Political Ethnography Cannot Fix the Flaws of Normative Behaviorism" (Political Studies Review, 2025), "The Limits of Nonideal Duties: A Partial Vindication of Fair Shares" (2024), "The Moral Benefits of Coercion: A Defense of Ideal Statism" (Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2024), "Ideal Theory and Action-Guidance: Why We Still Disagree" (Social Theory and Practice, 2019), "Three Feasibility Constraints on the Concept of Justice" (Res Publica, 2017), and "Nonideal Theory and Compliance – A Clarification" (European Journal of Political Theory, 2015). She contributed the chapter "Beyond Strict Compliance? Unpacking the Notion of Nonideal Theory as Partial Compliance Theory" to The Routledge Handbook of Non-Ideal Theory (2024).