O'Neill / Williamson Property-Owning Democracy

Rawls and Beyond
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5516-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosopher John Rawls' idea of a property-owning democracy.
* Offers new and essential insights into Rawls's idea of "property-owning democracy"
* Addresses the proposed political and economic institutions and policies which Rawls's theory would require
* Considers radical alternatives to existing forms of capitalism
* Provides a major contribution to debates among progressive policymakers and activists about the programmatic direction progressive politics should take in the near future

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Neill, Martin

Williamson, Thad

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors vii
Notes on Contributors viii
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Introduction 1
Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson
Part One: Property-Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations15
1 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? ThePolitics of Property-Owning Democracy 17
Simone Chambers
2 Property-Owning Democracy: A Short History 33
Ben Jackson
3 Public Justification and the Right to Private Property:Welfare Rights as Compensation for Exclusion 53
Corey Brettschneider
4 Free (and Fair) Markets without Capitalism: Political Values,Principles of Justice, and Property-Owning Democracy 75
Martin O'Neill
5 Property-Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Ideaof an Egalitarian Ethos 101
Alan Thomas
6 Property-Owning Democracy and Republican Citizenship 129
Stuart White
Part Two: Interrogating Property-Owning Democracy: Work,Gender, Political Economy 147
7 Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement 149
Nien-h^e Hsieh
8 Care, Gender, and Property-Owning Democracy 163
Ingrid Robeyns
9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument forDemocratic Corporatism 180
Waheed Hussain
10 Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? 201
David Schweickart
Part Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property-OwningDemocracy: Program and Politics 223
11 Realizing Property-Owning Democracy: A 20-Year Strategy toCreate an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States225
Thad Williamson
12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, HumanCapital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needsto Know 249
Sonia Sodha
13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property-Owning Democracy266
Gar Alperovitz
14 Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration?287
Thad Williamson
Index 307

Über Autor(innen)

Martin O'Neill is Senior Lecturer in PoliticalPhilosophy in the Department of Politics at the University ofYork.
Thad Williamson is Associate Professor of Leadership Studiesand Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University ofRichmond.