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Book SynopsisTrade Review“
Difference without Domination is an ambitious volume that aims to reconfigure the discourses on democracy, egalitarianism, and justice in an increasingly diverse world. This brilliant volume has the potential to transform profoundly how we comprehend democracy and difference, and it promises visions of egalitarian futures devoid of domination.” -- Neil Roberts, Williams College
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Difference without Domination is a unique contribution to an emerging literature on how ideas about democracy affect, and are affected by, concepts and practices pertaining to equality, egalitarianism, and domination. The contributors range from the disciplines of history, philosophy, economics, to political science, psychology, and brain sciences, forging encounters and dialogue across boundaries to assess the aforementioned concepts and their capacity to interrogate domination as lived experience. Allen and Somanathan have performed a service in encouraging and framing what are often—in academic and in daily life—difficult conversations.” -- Michael G. Hanchard, University of Pennsylvania
"Eleven papers explore how social diversity, especially race, should inform thinking about both justice and democracy, providing the bases for new and complementary paradigms for both normative and positive engagements with issues of injustice and inequality. Papers discuss how difference without domination should replace, or at least supplement, the Rawlsian difference principle in the social and economic realms." * Journal of Economic Literature *
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan Part I Difference without Domination
1 * A New Theory of Justice: Difference without Domination
Danielle Allen 2 * Race, Domination, and Republicanism
Melvin Rogers Part II Relations before Transactions: New Approaches to Inequality, Justice, and Dignity
3 * Crime and Punishment in a Divided Society
Rajiv Sethi 4 * The Psychology of Implicit Intergroup Bias and the Prospect of Change
Calvin Lai and Mahzarin Banaji 5 * Human Dignity and Modern Democracies
Ajume Wingo 6 * Relations before Transactions: A Personal Plea
Glenn Loury Part III The Limits of Mirroring: New Approaches to Representation, Measurement, and Membership
7 * Overrepresentation: Asian Americans and the Conundrums of Statistical Mirroring
Ellen D. Wu 8 * Second-Order Diversity: An Exploration of Decentralization’s Egalitarian Possibilities
Heather Gerken 9 * Contributing to a Society of Equals: Affirmative Action beyond the “Distributive Paradigm”
Urs Lindner 10 * The Measurement and Mismeasurement of Social Difference
Rohini Somanathan 11 * Immigration, Membership, and Justice: On the Right to Bring Others into the Polity
Claudio López-Guerra Conclusion: Redefining Integration
Danielle Allen and Rohini SomanathanIndex
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