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Book SynopsisProperty-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
Trade Review"In this very instructive, wide-ranging, and most welcome volume, Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson have assembled fourteen thoughtful essays and a substantial introduction which together explore its meaning and history, and the prospects of its implementation. The book has a great deal to interest political philosophers and theorists, political scientists, political economists, and reflective political activists on the left." (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 8 July 2013)
Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii
Acknowledgments xi
Foreword xiii
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
Introduction 1
Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson
Part One: Property-Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations 15
1 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics 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 Idea of 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-he Hsieh
8 Care, Gender, and Property-Owning Democracy 163
Ingrid Robeyns
9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic Corporatism 180
Waheed Hussain
10 Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? 201
David Schweickart
Part Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property-Owning Democracy: Program and Politics 223
11 Realizing Property-Owning Democracy: A 20-Year Strategy to Create an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States 225
Thad Williamson
12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, Human Capital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needs to Know 249
Sonia Sodha
13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property-Owning Democracy 266
Gar Alperovitz
14 Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration? 287
Thad Williamson
Index 307
