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Author | : Eric Heinze |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2018-05-08 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1351770144 |
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This title was first published in 2003. The Logic of Equality proposes a formal-logical method for examining the indeterminacy of legal discourse, using the example of the non-discrimination norm. It shows that the indeterminacy of a legal concept does not mean that it is completely chaotic - the indeterminacy of the non-discrimination norm arises out of, and presupposes, a determinate formal structure, which remains fixed and constant both within and across jurisdictions, regardless of institutional or doctrinal differences. To illustrate the argument, cases are presented from a variety of jurisdictions including the United States Supreme Court, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Court of Justice, and the German Constitutional Court. The book is aimed at theorists who are interested in the analysis of legal discourse, including comparative legal scholars and those who specialise in human rights and/or discrimination law.
Author | : Thomas Christiano |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191613916 |
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What is the ethical basis of democracy? And what reasons do we have to go along with democratic decisions even when we disagree with them? And when do we have reason to say that we may justly ignore democratic decisions? These questions must be answered if we are to have answers to some of the most important questions facing our global community, which include whether there is a human right to democracy and whether we must attempt to spread democracy throughout the globe. This book provides a philosophical account of the moral foundations of democracy and of liberalism. It shows how democracy and basic liberal rights are grounded in the principle of public equality, which tells us that in the establishment of law and policy we must treat persons as equals in ways they can see are treating them as equals. The principle of public equality is shown to be the fundamental principle of social justice. This account enables us to understand the nature and roles of adversarial politics and public deliberation in political life. It gives an account of the grounds of the authority of democracy. It also shows when the authority of democracy runs out. The author shows how the violations of democratic and liberal rights are beyond the legitimate authority of democracy, how the creation of persistent minorities in a democratic society, and the failure to ensure a basic minimum for all persons weaken the legitimate authority of democracy.
Author | : Todd May |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780271034492 |
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This book examines the political perspective of French thinker and historian Jacques Ranci&ère. Ranci&ère argues that a democratic politics emerges out of people&’s acting under the presupposition of their own equality with those better situated in the social hierarchy. Todd May examines and extends this presupposition, offering a normative framework for understanding it, placing it in the current political context, and showing how it challenges traditional political philosophy and opens up neglected political paths. He demonstrates that the presupposition of equality orients political action around those who act on their own behalf&—and those who act in solidarity with them&—rather than, as with the political theories of John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Amartya Sen, those who distribute the social goods. As May argues, Ranci&ère&’s view offers both hope and perspective for those who seek to think about and engage in progressive political action.
Author | : John RAWLS |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674042603 |
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Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Author | : Ronald Dworkin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2002-03-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674253787 |
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Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly the consequence of its system of law and policy, that requirement imposes serious egalitarian constraints on that distribution. What distribution of a nation's wealth is demanded by equal concern for all? Dworkin draws upon two fundamental humanist principles--first, it is of equal objective importance that all human lives flourish, and second, each person is responsible for defining and achieving the flourishing of his or her own life--to ground his well-known thesis that true equality means equality in the value of the resources that each person commands, not in the success he or she achieves. Equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are therefore not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same humanist conception of life and politics. Since no abstract political theory can be understood except in the context of actual and complex political issues, Dworkin develops his thesis by applying it to heated contemporary controversies about the distribution of health care, unemployment benefits, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.
Author | : Charles R. Beitz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2020-11-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691221413 |
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The description for this book, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory, will be forthcoming.
Author | : Lesley A. Jacobs |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780521530217 |
Download Pursuing Equal Opportunities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book offers original and innovative contributions to the debate about equality of opportunity. The first part sets out a theory of equality of opportunity that presents equal opportunities as a normative device for the regulation of competition for scarce resources. The second part shifts the focus to the consideration of the practical application by courts or legislatures or public policy makers of policies for addressing racial, class or gender injustices. The author examines standardized tests, affirmative action, workfare, universal health-care, comparable worth, and the economic consequences of divorce.
Author | : John Campbell bookseller (Philadelphia.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1848 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John Baker |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2016-05-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230250416 |
Download Equality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How can egalitarian ideals be put into action? This ground-breaking book sets out a new interdisciplinary model for equality studies. Integrating normative questions about the ideal of equality with empirical issues about the nature of inequality, it applies a new framework to a wide range of contemporary inequalities. Proposing far-reaching changes in the economy, politics, law, education and research practices, it sets out innovative political strategies for achieving those aims. It is an invaluable resource for both academics and activists.
Author | : Anthony J. McGann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472099498 |
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How does democracy work?