This essay explores two largely distinct discussions about equality: the 'luck egalitarian' debate concerning the appropriate metric of equality and the 'equality and difference' debate which has focused on the need for egalitarianism to consider the underlying norms in light of which the abstract principle to 'treat equals equally' operates. In the end, both of these discussions point to the importance of political equality for egalitarianism more generally and, in the concluding section, an attempt is made to show how the ideal of 'equal concern and respect' might best be pursued given the results of these important discussions.
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Ted Honderich
Democracy has been justified as the political system whose citizens are sovereign, which is to say most free or most equal in their political experience, participation or consent, and most likely to be benefited by economic freedoms. Most importantly, democracy is recommended as that form of government which gets things more right than any other form of government. But this traditional view, and also more recent qualifications of this view, is simply inadequate, refuted and rendered nonsensical by very real electoral, wealth, income and power inequalities in democratic societies. Nevertheless, it is this kind of hierarchic democracy, like those of the United States and the United Kingdom, whose systems of government are exactly not true to the idea that two heads are better than one and more heads better than two, which reaches to judgements about Palestine, 9/11, Iraq, 7/7 and about all that is to come after those things.
Emancipation as social equality
Subaltern politics in contemporary India
Indrajit Roy
human emancipation from political emancipation. Whereas political emancipation entails granting formal political equality to individuals as citizens of their states, human emancipation is about the process through which individuals recognize and
What Do (Parties Think) Women and LGBTI Citizens Want?
Party Platforms, Gender, and Sexuality in the 2021 German Federal Election
Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
reformed its welfare state to encourage stay-at-home fathers and dual-career couples and adopted corporate board quotas for women. Over the course of Merkel's chancellorship, Germany rose almost 7 points on the 100 point European Gender Equality Index
In German Politics and Society
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Jonas Hultin Rosenberg
distinguishable but substantively related. 1 This article concerns the relation between one particular principle of inclusion, the all-affected principle, and one particular distribution scheme, political equality. As understood here, the former requires that
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2019
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A Malady of the Left and an Ethics of Communism
Badiouian Diagnosis, Lacanian Cure, Sartrean Responsibility
Andrey Gordienko
of equality to the ethical ideal of responsibility, Badiou characterises his own project as ‘a philosophy of commitment, of engagement, with a certain fidelity to Sartre, if you like, or to Marxism.’ 8 Indeed, reflecting on his youthful fascination
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- 99–128 (30 total)
Pentecostalism and Egalitarianism in Melanesia
A Reconsideration of the Pentecostal Gender Paradox
Annelin Eriksen
see it as anything other than a paradox. In this article I want to address the gender question in Pentecostalism differently. My claim is that in order for the paradox to emerge, a specific idea of equality and a specific idea of gender have to be
In Religion and Society
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Gender Parity and Equality in the Sultanate of Oman
A Case in Education for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries
Faryal Khan and Maricel Fernandez-Carag
elimination of gender disparities in primary and secondary education by 2005, and achievement of gender equality in education by 2015, with a focus on ensuring girls’ full and equal access to and achievement in basic education of good quality (UNESCO 2000
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Examining Gender Equality in Greenland in the Last Thirty Years
An Investigation through the Lens of the CEDAW Convention's Examinations
Siff Lund Kjærgaard
gender equality and applying the Convention to Greenland should be considered a Greenlandic affair. 2 Furthermore, they have also stated that gender equality is a principle and objective for policies and legislation. 3 In 2019 they expressed that gender
Knut Rio, Bruce Kapferer, and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
limits on human potential, usually oppressively so. Those orientations toward equality take many forms, articulated as they might be around notions of status, gender, leadership, redistribution of wealth, and so forth, but they are always relative to