These modern constitutions that have been adopted largely in the Global South enshrine a set of divergent values and rights that embrace both political philosophical concerns relating to liberty as well as distributive equality. This article seeks to grapple with the approach to distributive justice that can best give expression to the multiple normative commitments of these constitutions as well as key institutional features thereof. I argue for these societies to adopt what I term a two-tier theory of distributive justice: these theories require a set pattern or threshold to be achieved in a certain domain but also allow for a tolerable variation in resource distribution in another domain. I seek to show how two of the foremost egalitarian liberal theories of distributive justice – that of Ronald Dworkin and John Rawls – exemplify this structure as well as the resources they have to address the problems thereof. I then argue that a two-tier structure of a theory of distributive justice can help explain and reconcile key features of these modern constitutions. In particular, I shall seek to show the manner in which such theories conform to understandings of the role of a constitution, and the importance of preserving space for democratic decision-making. At the same time, two-tier theories assist in delineating the appropriate role constitutional courts should play in addressing the distribution of economic resources in society. These theories also have important implications for the role of the state and markets. Such a structure, I shall conclude, gives effect to a particular conception of equality as well as liberty and so manages to reconcile these two normative values.
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Enabling Entanglements to Emerge
Discovering Performance Curation in the Philippines
Regina Bautista
Philippines is subject to a political system that bows to patronage and free-market capitalism's agenda of profit. Culturally, it is a country populated by diverse ethnolinguistic and indigenous groups—minorities that do not often receive the same socio-economic
To Accompany and to Observe: Engaged Scholarship and Social Change Vis-à-Vis Sub-Saharan Transmigration in Morocco
An Interview with Mehdi Alioua
Sabina Barone and Mehdi Alioua
population had access to the residence permit; socially, that allowed them to really exist in Moroccan society. However, it did not enable them to achieve their economic integration. The residence permit did not enable them to find jobs and assert their socio-economic
In Migration and Society
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Suzanne Graham and Victoria Graham
needs of the populations. Democracy is more meaningful to societies if their socio-economic rights as well as civil and political freedoms are promoted ( Graham, 2015 ). Sikuka (2017) argues that although Cabo Verde, Mauritius, and Seychelles are
In Regions and Cohesion
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The Case of South Africa
The Societal Impact of COVID-19
Krish Chetty
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In The International Journal of Social Quality
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The Case of India
A Moral Foundation for the Impact of COVID-19 on Health and Society in the World's Largest Democracy
Sony Pellissery, Vijay Paul, Khushi Srivastava, and Drishti Ranjan
Reasonable Approach to the Minimum Core: Laying the Foundations for Future Socio-Economic Rights Jurisprudence .” South African Journal on Human Rights 19 ( 1 ): 1 – 26 . doi: 10.1080/19962126.2003.11865170 . Chauhan , A. 2021 . “ Lucknow: FIR
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