Property–Owning Democracy – Rawls and Beyond
Rawls and Beyond
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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
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<p>Acknowledgments xi</p>
<p>Foreword xiii<br /> Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers</p>
<p>Introduction 1<br /> Martin O′Neill and Thad Williamson</p>
<p>Part One: Property–Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations 15</p>
<p>1 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics of Property–Owning Democracy 17<br /> Simone Chambers</p>
<p>2 Property–Owning Democracy: A Short History 33<br /> Ben Jackson</p>
<p>3 Public Justification and the Right to Private Property: Welfare Rights as Compensation for Exclusion 53<br /> Corey Brettschneider</p>
<p>4 Free (and Fair) Markets without Capitalism: Political Values, Principles of Justice, and Property–Owning Democracy 75<br /> Martin O′Neill</p>
<p>5 Property–Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian Ethos 101<br /> Alan Thomas</p>
<p>6 Property–Owning Democracy and Republican Citizenship 129<br /> Stuart White</p>
<p>Part Two: Interrogating Property–Owning Democracy: Work, Gender, Political Economy 147</p>
<p>7 Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement 149<br /> Nien–he Hsieh</p>
<p>8 Care, Gender, and Property–Owning Democracy 163<br /> Ingrid Robeyns</p>
<p>9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic Corporatism 180<br /> Waheed Hussain</p>
<p>10 Property–Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? 201<br /> David Schweickart</p>
<p>Part Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property–Owning Democracy: Program and Politics 223</p>
<p>11 Realizing Property–Owning Democracy: A 20–Year Strategy to Create an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States 225<br /> Thad Williamson</p>
<p>12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, Human Capital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needs to Know 249<br /> Sonia Sodha</p>
<p>13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property–Owning Democracy 266<br /> Gar Alperovitz</p>
<p>14 Is Property–Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration? 287<br /> Thad Williamson</p>
<p>Index 307</p>