
Property-Owning Democracy : Rawls and Beyond.
Title:
Property-Owning Democracy : Rawls and Beyond.
Author:
O'Neill, Martin.
ISBN:
9781444355161
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (338 pages)
Contents:
Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Part One: Property-Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations -- 1 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics of Property-Owning Democracy -- 2 Property-Owning Democracy: A Short History -- 3 Public Justification and the Right to Private Property: Welfare Rights as Compensation for Exclusion -- 4 Free (and Fair) Markets without Capitalism: Political Values, Principles of Justice, and Property-Owning Democracy -- 5 Property-Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian Ethos -- 6 Property-Owning Democracy and Republican Citizenship -- Part Two: Interrogating Property-Owning Democracy: Work, Gender, Political Economy -- 7 Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement -- 8 Care, Gender, and Property-Owning Democracy -- 9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic Corporatism -- 10 Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? -- Part Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property-Owning Democracy: Program and Politics -- 11 Realizing Property-Owning Democracy: A 20-Year Strategy to Create an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States -- 12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, Human Capital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needs to Know -- 13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property-Owning Democracy -- 14 Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration? -- Index.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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