Property-owning democracy: rawls and beyond

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of originalessays 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 requireConsiders radical alternatives to existing forms of capitalismProvides a major contribution to debates among progressive policymakers and activists about the programmatic direction progressive politics should take in the near future INDICE: Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiForeword xiiiJoshua Cohen and Joel RogersIntroduction 1Martin O'Neill and Thad WilliamsonPart One: Property-Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations 151 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics of Property-Owning Democracy 17Simone Chambers2 Property-Owning Democracy: A Short History 33Ben Jackson3 Public Justification and the Right to Private Property: Welfare Rights as Compensation for Exclusion 53Corey Brettschneider4 Free (and Fair) Markets without Capitalism: Political Values, Principles of Justice, and Property-Owning Democracy 75Martin O'Neill5 Property-Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian Ethos 101Alan Thomas6 Property-Owning Democracy and Republican Citizenship 129Stuart WhitePart Two: Interrogating Property-Owning Democracy: Work, Gender, Political Economy 1477 Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement 149Nien-he Hsieh8 Care, Gender, and Property-Owning Democracy 163Ingrid Robeyns9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic Corporatism 180Waheed Hussain10 Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? 201David SchweickartPart Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property-Owning Democracy: Program and Politics 22311 Realizing Property-Owning Democracy: A 20-Year Strategy to Create an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States 225Thad Williamson12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, Human Capital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needs to Know 249Sonia Sodha13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property-Owning Democracy 266Gar Alperovitz14 Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration? 287Thad WilliamsonIndex 307

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-5519-2
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Fecha Publicación: 17/04/2012
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés