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The challenge of policing minorities in a liberal society Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Joseph Heath
The problem with police is not that they are fascist pigs but that our country is ruled by majoritarian pigs. Ta-Nehisi Coates To change the police without changing the police role in society is as futile as the labors of Sisyphus. John van Maanen The public release of several shocking videos showing unarmed Black men being killed by police in the USA has been enough to persuade most people that there
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Noncompliance and the Demands of Public Reason Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Sameer Bajaj
Political liberals argue that democratic citizens have a duty of public reason to ensure that important laws are justified by reasons fellow citizens can accept given their own moral and philosophical beliefs.1 In any real-world democracy, many will fail to comply with this duty. Most people have never heard of public reason, and many who have heard of it reject it. This raises an important question
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The Epistemic Dimensions of Civil Disobedience Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Alexander Bryan
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, protests against the public health measures instituted by governments have become a familiar sight on the streets of major cities across the world. The policies these protests challenge, and the kinds of claims made by protestors, have differed across jurisdiction and have evolved through different stages of the pandemic, with protests across Europe and North America
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Debate: Political Authority, Functionalism, and the Problem of Annexation Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Arthur Hill
Deciding whether a state has political authority is arguably the most fundamental judgment we can make about its moral standing. When a state possesses legitimate authority, it has the exclusive right to govern the occupants of its territory. Even when its decisions are inefficient, irrational, or morally mistaken, its subjects are expected to comply with the legal order it establishes, and outsiders
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Gentrification and Integration Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Jamie Draper
How should the injustices associated with the enduring segregation of Black Americans be addressed? In contemporary debates about racial justice, there are two broad answers to this question. “New integrationists” argue that integration is necessary for remedying racial inequalities.1 “Egalitarian pluralists” instead argue that we should promote strategies that seek to improve the material condition
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Privacy, Publicity, and the Right to Be Forgotten Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-09-14 Hannah Carnegy-Arbuthnott
Many of us will remember the sense of foreboding induced by the simple threat, usually uttered by a teacher: ‘It will go on your permanent record’. This administrative bogeyman exploits our early awareness of the importance of being able to leave some things in the past. While some of the things we do may go on public record at various points in our lives, it used to be possible to comfort ourselves
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Is One More Powerful with Numbers on One's Side? Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Sean Ingham, Niko Kolodny
Suppose that in a jurisdiction there are 2,000,001 white voters and 1,000,000 black voters, all of whom enjoy equally weighted votes. The question of white supremacy is routinely put to a majority-rule plebiscite. In each such plebiscite, all white voters vote yes for white supremacy and all black voters vote no. This has been going on as long as anyone can remember, and it will continue for as long
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Rethinking moral claim rights Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Laura Valentini
1 INTRODUCTION The notion of rights is ubiquitous in philosophical discourse. As Allen Buchanan put it over thirty years ago, ‘Future historians of moral and political philosophy may well label our period the Age of Rights’.1 This notion is not only popular, but also complex. As the legal scholar W. N. Hohfeld famously suggested, rights are susceptible to multiple interpretations: they can be claims
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The wrong of mercenarism: a promissory account Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Chiara Cordelli
Recent history has seen a rapid growth in the involvement of private parties in war conflicts. In 2020, there were almost twice as many private contractors as US soldiers in Afghanistan.1 In the ongoing war in Ukraine, private actors are allegedly deployed by both parties in the conflict.2 Originally hired by states to provide support services from catering to logistics, private military firms (PMFs)
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Impartiality and fair play revisited Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Brookes Brown
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.(Eleanor Roosevelt). Picture the following: Park. As a runner, Miguel benefits from the expansive neighborhood watch that keeps his local park safe for nighttime jogs. Yet, his neighbors complain, he never takes a turn on patrol. Something seems troubling about Miguel's behavior. Yet it is hard to say what he is doing wrong. He
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Relational egalitarianism and moral unequals Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Andreas Bengtson, Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
1 INTRODUCTION When discussing theories of justice, most philosophers take the moral equality of human beings as their starting point. As Will Kymlicka says, in all contemporary plausible theories of justice, moral equality constitutes an “egalitarian plateau”.1 Arguably, the most prominent novel theory of justice in recent years is relational egalitarianism—a theory on which justice requires people
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Amelioration, inclusion, and legal recognition: On sex, gender, and the UK's Gender Recognition Act Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Mary Leng
Philosophers engaged in projects of ‘ameliorative inquiry’ offer accounts of social categories, such as those of race and gender, that set aside the descriptive question of understanding those categories as they currently exist in favour of developing accounts of how we ought to think of those categories given our political goals. For feminists whose goal is to combat gender injustice, the dictionary
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Debate: Legitimate injustice: A response to Wellman Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Jonathan Quong
In his article, “The Space between Justice and Legitimacy”, Kit Wellman offers a novel account of the relationship between political philosophy's two central concepts.1 He argues that states can be legitimate yet impose many unjust laws and policies. This is true, he suggests, because political legitimacy should be understood as a claim about wide proportionality.2 Just as a country's war can be widely
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A merely national ‘universal’ basic income and global justice Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Martin Sticker
In this article, I raise a justice problem for a universal basic income (UBI) if implemented in one or a few nations, but not globally. I raise this objection from the perspective of someone who is ultimately sympathetic to a UBI, even a merely national one. My argument specifically problematizes the unconditionality of a UBI and the unprecedented benefits for those who receive it. UBI advocates themselves
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White psychodrama Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Liam Kofi Bright
I INTRODUCTION One might hope that philosophy could reconcile us to our social world and each other. To entertain this as plausible is to think there is some perspective one could reach via philosophical enquiry that shows our life and society to be as they are for good reason, allows us to see it all as in some sense rational. Hegel is no doubt the great exponent of this ideal, his system promising
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Sorting and the ecology of freedom of association Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Valerie Soon
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There are no potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
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Legitimacy and two roles for flourishing in politics Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Paul Garofalo
1 IINTRODUCTION It is good for people to flourish. But does the state have the authority to promote the flourishing of its citizens? Some political philosophers—perfectionists—hold that it does.1 For perfectionists, the state has the authority to pursue policies meant to promote the flourishing of its citizens, and it is appropriate for the state, or state officials, to take considerations about what
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Compromising with the uncompromising: Political disagreement under asymmetric compliance Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-14 Alex Worsnip
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There are no potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
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Contractualist alternatives to the veil of ignorance Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-12 Andrew Lister
Some of the strongest criticisms of the original position have come from contractualists sympathetic to egalitarianism. In “Contractualism and Utilitarianism,” Thomas Scanlon objected that, without special assumptions, choice under uncertainty justifies maximizing the average rather than the minimum, and is thus compatible with the least advantaged suffering serious avoidable hardship. Yet Scanlon
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Urban–rural justice Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-08 Lisa Herzog
1 INTRODUCTION In the public discourse of Western democracies,1 the axis of “urban” versus “rural” has reappeared.2 Often discussed in the context of right-wing populism and its successes among rural voters, commentators have discussed the “Big Sort,”3 the contrast between “Anywheres” and “Somewheres,”4 and the lifeworlds of “hillbillies.”5 Scholars in the social sciences have attempted to understand
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Big decisions: “Opting,” psychological richness, and public policy Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2023-03-04 Cass R. Sunstein
CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT There are no potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article.
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Refuge and Aid* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2022-11-27 Victor Tadros
Horrific scenes of needy migrants attempting to enter wealthy countries, often after expensive, arduous, and dangerous journeys, move many to believe that more such migrants should be permitted to enter and reside. But there are also horrific scenes of desperately needy people at a distance from wealthy countries—the distant needy—who are persecuted by their states, internally displaced due to armed
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Hope from Despair* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 Jakob Huber
The public discourse on climate change has long centred around hope-based narratives pushed by both the media and mainstream environmentalist agents from Greenpeace and WWF to Bill Gates and Al Gore.1 The promises of scientific and technological advance in particular, they argue, give us reason to be hopeful that it is in our hands to halt the incipient climate catastrophe. We just need to roll up
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A Defense of Pluralist Egalitarianism under Severe Uncertainty: Axiomatic Characterization* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Akira Inoue, Kaname Miyagishima
I. INTRODUCTION Severe uncertainty plays a critical role in many problems of distributive justice, such as social security, public health, public projects, budget deficits, and climate change. Under severe uncertainty, available information does not allow us to assign precise probabilities to possible states of affairs. A recent example of severe uncertainty is the impact of COVID-19. How policy-makers
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Are Intuitions Treated as Evidence? Cases from Political Philosophy* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Sebastian J. Conte
I. INTRODUCTION It is a common view that philosophers treat intuitions as evidence for philosophical theories. Following Herman Cappelen, we may refer to this view as centrality.11 Cappelen 2012, p. 1. Advocates of centrality typically assume that claims about cases (henceforth, case verdicts) are treated as evidence for and against philosophical theories because of their intuitiveness. On the basis
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Why Limitarianism?* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2022-01-26 Ingrid Robeyns
This article discusses ‘limitarianism’, which in its most general formulation is the idea that in the world as it is, no one should have more than a certain upper limit of valuable goods, in particular, income and wealth. What, if anything, does ‘limitarianism’ add to normative political philosophy? In Section I, I describe the context in which limitarianism has been introduced. Section II will provide
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Why Swing‐State Voting Is Not Effective Altruism: The Bad News about the Good News about Voting ☆ Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2022-01-13 Jason Brennan,Christopher Freiman
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The Space between Justice and Legitimacy☆ Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-12-27 C. H. Wellman
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On Public-identity Disempowerment* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-12-08 Laura Valentini
I. INTRODUCTION Consider the following scenario. Messiah. Al is a good man. He leads a fulfilling life. Those around him appreciate him and treat him with respect. Shortly before his death, he makes an unsettling discovery. Unbeknownst to him, those in his community believe he is a Messiah: someone chosen by God, with innate virtue, and deserving of unconditional respect. As it happens, Al really is
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Critical-level Sufficientarianism* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga
I. INTRODUCTION Sufficientarianism is a general class of distributional principles that assign absolute priority to those below a threshold level that represents a minimally acceptable standard of well-being. This topic has received an increasing amount of attention in the recent literature.11 See, for instance, Crisp 2003; Huseby 2010; Shields 2012, 2016. The notion of sufficientarianism can be traced
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Intra‐party Democracy: A Functionalist Account☆ Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Samuel Bagg,Udit Bhatia
This paper articulates a functionalist account of intra-party democracy (IPD). Like realist critics, we insist that IPD practices be evaluated on the basis of whether they facilitate resistance to domination and capture at the level of the polity as a whole, and therefore accept certain realist worries about IPD. Yet realists neglect the possibility that wealthy interests could control the political
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Criminal Wrongdoing, Restorative Justice, and the Moral Standing of Unjust States☆ Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-10-22 Jeffrey W. Howard,Avia Pasternak
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Making Identities Safe for Democracy☆ Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-10-03 Derrick Darby,Eduardo J. Martinez
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Autonomy as Non‐alienation, Autonomy as Sovereignty, and Politics* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-09-20 David Enoch
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Beyond the “Formidable Circle”: Race and the Limits of Democratic Inclusion in Tocqueville's Democracy in America * Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Christine Dunn Henderson
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Justice, Thresholds, and the Three Claims of Sufficientarianism* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Dick Timmer
I. INTRODUCTION According to sufficientarianism, justice requires that everyone has enough.11 See Frankfurt 1987; Casal 2007; Shields 2012. This view has attracted considerable philosophical and societal support, and appeals to widely held intuitions about social policy and institutional design, such as that the state should meet the basic needs and ensure the basic freedoms of its citizens, and that
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Survey Article: Trading Nature: When Are Environmental Markets (Un)desirable? Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-06-11 Stijn Neuteleers
I. Introduction: Commodification and Environmental Goods Should there be markets for environmental goods? For instance, should we trade carbon and biodiversity credits? The debate over markets and nature is often polarized. On the one hand, there is a position that assumes that ‘all nature is for sale’ or, more precisely, that there are no principled reasons for excluding certain environmental goods
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The Problem of Public Shaming* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-05-06 Harrison Frye
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Democracy Requires Organized Collective Power* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Steven Klein
Democratic institutions awaken and flatter the passion for equality without ever being able to satisfy it entirely.11 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper, 2006), p. 198. Alexis de Tocqueville To turn from mechanisms and concepts to the social forces in play …22 Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (Boston:
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A Probabilistic Analysis of Title IX Reforms* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Yoaav Isaacs,Jason Iuliano
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The Metaphysics of Intersectionality Revisited* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-04-18 Holly Lawford‐Smith,Kate Phelan
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Justice, Reciprocity, and the Boundaries of State Authority* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-03-21 Alexander Motchoulski
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The Conscription of Informal Political Representatives* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Wendy Salkin
Informal political representation—the phenomenon of speaking or acting on behalf of others although one has not been elected or selected to do so by means of a systematized election or selection procedure—plays a crucial role in advancing the interests of groups. Sometimes, those who emerge as informal political representatives (IPRs) do so willingly (voluntary representatives). But, often, people
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What Should Egalitarian Policies Express? The Case of Paternalism* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-02-27 Anne‐Sofie Greisen Hojlund
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Voting for Less than the Best* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2021-02-23 Michael Ridge
Is voting for a candidate with no realistic winning chances irresponsible? The question is often practically relevant. For example, in the 2016 Trump/Clinton election, Gary Johnson was the Libertarian Party candidate and Jill Stein ran for the Greens. Neither Johnson nor Stein had realistic winning chances; together they received only around 4 per cent of the vote. If just 70 per cent of those who
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Verbal Microaggressions as Hyper‐implicatures* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-12-18 Javiera Perez Gomez
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Political Liberalism and Respect* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-12-15 Han Wietmarschen
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Deliberation through Misrepresentation? Inchoate Speech and the Division of Interpretive Labor* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-12-13 Alexander Prescott‐Couch
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Debate: Anger, Fitting Attitudes, and Srinivasan’s Category of “Affective Injustice”* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-11-27 David Plunkett
ONE important dimension of how we evaluate anger concerns its effects. Roughly, we often want to know if someone being angry is productive or not, relative to certain values or goals. Debate on this kind of question runs through the history of political thought up until the present moment. For example, it’s long been a key part of the debate about the role of anger in political movements against a
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Abuse, Exploitation, and Floating Jurisdiction: Protecting Workers at Sea* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 Chris Armstrong
In 2013, the Bangladeshi media reported that at least 40 fishermen had been bound hand and foot and tossed into the sea to drown. Despite video evidence, no prosecutions followed. In a survey of Cambodian men and boys sold to Thai fishing boats the following year, many reported having witnessed officers killing workers.11 Hodal and Kelly 2014. These abuses are extreme examples of a much broader pattern
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Commuters, Located Life Interests, and the City's Demos* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Lior Glick
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Bright Lines in Juvenile Justice* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Amy Berg
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Engaged Climate Ethics* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-09-21 Fergus Green, Eric Brandstedt
We are in the grip of a climate emergency. Recently, a letter signed by more than 11,000 scientists from 153 countries, published in the journal BioScience, stated frankly that ‘[a]n immense increase of scale in endeavors to conserve our biosphere is needed to avoid untold suffering due to the climate crisis’.11 William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas Newsome, et al., ‘World scientists' warning
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Delegation in Democracy: A Temporal Analysis* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-09-09 Leah Downey
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Democratic Reciprocity* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-08-23 Andreas Schedler
Reciprocity, the two‐sided social norm of fairness that involves a duty to return favors, as well as the permission to return injuries, is widely recognized as a fundamental norm “not only for primitive but for all societies.”11 Gouldner 1960, p. 162. Similarly, “[r]eciprocity is widely recognized as a core principle of democracy.”22 Gutmann and Thompson 2004, p. 98. Modern democracy is a system of
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Risk Shifts in the Gig Economy: The Normative Case for an Insurance Scheme against the Effects of Precarious Work* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-08-19 Friedemann Bieber, Jakob Moggia
Over the last decade, the term ‘gig economy’ has risen to prominence in public discourse, but has failed to attract sustained attention from political philosophers. The gig economy is a subsection of the overall economy that predominantly relies on ‘on-demand work’:11 Prassl 2018, p. 11. workers22 Throughout this article, we deliberately speak of ‘workers’ in a broad sense: not only those permanently
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Legal Transitions without Legitimate Expectations* Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-07-30 Fergus Green
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Debate: Taking Offense: A Reply Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-07-22 Jeremy Waldron
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History Will Judge: Hume's General Point of View in Historical Moral Judgment Journal of Political Philosophy (IF 1.881) Pub Date : 2020-07-18 Serge Grigoriev