Property-Owning Democracy
Rawls and Beyond
Published on 17. January 2012
304 pages
978-1-4443-5517-8 (ISBN)
Description
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
Reviews / Votes
"In this very instructive, wide-ranging, and most welcomevolume, Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson have assembled fourteenthoughtful essays and a substantial introduction which togetherexplore its meaning and history, and the prospects of itsimplementation. The book has a great deal to interest politicalphilosophers and theorists, political scientists, politicaleconomists, and reflective political activists on the left." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 8 July 2013) "This splendid volume offers a fresh alternative to staledebates about the welfare state versus unfettered markets. Itinvites us to think anew about the economic arrangements that makedemocracy possible. This book reconnects political philosophywith political economy, and sets a new and promising agenda forpolitical theory, and for democratic politics." --Michael J. Sandel, Harvard University "Transforming principles of distributive justice intopractical institutional designs is never an easy task. What O'Neilland Williamson have achieved, in assembling this collection ofoutstanding papers, is to supply us with strong reasons to believethat property-owning democracy is that transformation, with respectto John Rawls' account of just principles." --Hillel Steiner, Universities of Manchester and Salford "Property-owning democracy is unfamiliar and notwell-understood, but it is a promising ideal for progressivepolitical economy. In this very instructive, wide-ranging, and mostwelcome volume, Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson have assembledfourteen thoughtful essays and a substantial introduction whichtogether explore its meaning and history, and the prospects of itsimplementation." --Paul Weithman, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsMore details
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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.
Content
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
