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154Social Contract Theory.Political Argument: A Reissue with a New Introduction.Rawls: `A Theory of Justice' and its Critics.Contemporary Political Philosophy: An IntroductionPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (168): 375-378. 1992.
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Are there any cultural rights?In Julia Stapleton (ed.), Group rights: perspectives since 1900, Thoemmes Press. 1995.
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6LibertyIn Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Pogge (eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2017.Such is the rhetorical appeal of the idea of liberty that a variety of political philosophies claim to honour it. Republicans and Marxists, no less than libertarians and liberals, maintain that they and they alone are the true defenders of freedom. The literature of contemporary political theory is thus replete with rival analyses of the meaning of liberty, and disputes about its measurement, distribution and institutional requirements. Our aim here is to gain some understanding of the meaning a…Read more
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7Exit, Freedom and GenderIn Annamari Vitikainen & Dagmar Borchers (eds.), On Exit: Interdisciplinary perspectives on the right of exit in liberal multicultural societies, De Gruyter. pp. 34-56. 2012.
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12´Kevin Vallier' Trust in a Polarized AgeCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 26 (4): 601-607. 2023.Vallier offers a defence of liberalism that is publicly justified as an answer to political polarization. This critique argues that the philosophical solution he offers – a version of liberalism more likely to be endorsed by moderately idealized agents – may not succeed because the source of polarization lies elsewhere: in resentments arising out of changed social conditions and the alienation of parts of society unhappy with the very liberal narrative in question.
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The Dilemma of a Dutiful Daughter: Love and Freedom in the Thought of KartiniIn Debra Satz & Rob Reich (eds.), Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, Oup Usa. 2009.
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36Libertarianism without self-ownershipSocial Philosophy and Policy 36 (2): 71-93. 2019.:Libertarianism is a political philosophy whose defenders have set its foundations in the principle of self-ownership. But self-ownership supplies an uncertain basis for such a theory as it is prone to a number of serious difficulties, some of which have been addressed by libertarians but none of which can ultimately be overcome. For libertarianism to be a plausible way of looking at the world, it must look elsewhere for its basic principles. In particular, it needs to rethink the way it underst…Read more
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31JusticitisIn Manuel Knoll, Stephen Snyder & Nurdane Şimşek (eds.), New Perspectives on Distributive Justice: Deep Disagreements, Pluralism, and the Problem of Consensus, De Gruyter. pp. 187-204. 2018.
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21Who? Whom? Reparations and the Problem of AgencyJournal of Social Philosophy 37 (3): 330-341. 2006.
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36John Rawls: critical assessments of leading political philosophers (edited book)Routledge. 2003.This collection brings together the most important published papers on Rawls' work. In addition to a general introduction, the set includes introductions to each volume which help guide the reader through the material. The thematically organized volumes include: * Vol. 1: Foundations and Method * Vols. 2-3: Principles of Justice I and II * Vol. 4: Political Liberalism and the Law of Peoples
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52Expatriatism: The Theory and Practice of Open BordersIn Roger Smith (ed.), Citizenship, Borders and Human Needs, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 324-342. 2010.
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422The mirage of global justiceSocial Philosophy and Policy 23 (1): 1-28. 2006.The political pursuit of global justice is not a worthy goal, and our aims in establishing international legal and political institutions should be more modest. The pursuit of justice in the international order is dangerous to the extent that it requires the establishment of powerful supranational agencies, or legitimizes greater and more frequent exercise of political, economic, and military power by strong states or coalitions. The primary concern in the establishment and design of all legal a…Read more
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96Handbook of political theory (edited book)SAGE. 2004.`This volume combines remarkable coverage and distinguished contributors. The inclusion of thematic, conceptual, and historical chapters will make it a valuable resource for scholars as well as students' - Professor George Klosko, Department of Politics, University of Virginia This major new Handbook provides a definitive state-of-the-art review to political theory, past and present. It offers a complete guide to all the main areas and fields of political and philosophical inquiry today by the w…Read more
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16Review of Terry Nardin, The Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (12). 2002.
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88Liberalism, Communitarianism, and Political CommunitySocial Philosophy and Policy 13 (1): 80. 1996.The primary concern of this essay is with the question “What is a political community?” This question is important in its own right. Arguably, the main purpose of political philosophy is to provide an account of the nature of political association and, in so doing, to describe the relations that hold between the individual and the state. The question is also important, however, because of its centrality in contemporary debate about liberalism and community
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5ImmigrationIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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92Equality and diversityPolitics, Philosophy and Economics 1 (2): 185-212. 2002.The foundations of human inequality lie in the fact of human diversity, or in the human tendency to differentiate from some while associating with others to form groups. The diversity which results from association and differentiation makes equality unattainable. Diversity and equality are incompatible, and attempts to promote one can only be made at the expense of the other. In these circumstances, we should abandon the ideal of equality as incapable of offering us an adequate understanding of …Read more
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16Critical Exchange on the 2010 Nobel Peace PrizeContemporary Political Theory 11 (2): 229-240. 2012.
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31Two Constructions of LibertarianismLibertarian Papers 1 11. 2009.The libertarian first principle—a belief in individual freedom—can lead to two different and not necessarily acceptable societies from the standpoint of liberty. One is the “Union of Liberty,” in which communities, associations, and intermediate bodies are held to rigorous standards of voluntariness . In the other, the “Federation of Liberty,” they are not .While in any free society individuals may voluntarily join together and waive some of their rights , hard questions arise when nonconsenting…Read more
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43Postcolonialism and political theoryContemporary Political Theory 8 (3): 363-365. 2009.Postcolonialism and Political Theory explores the intersection between the political and the postcolonial through an engagement with, critique of, and challenge to some of the prevalent, restrictive tenets and frameworks of Western political and social thought. It is a response to the call by postcolonial studies, as well as to the urgent need within world politics, to turn towards a multiplicity largely excluded from globally dominant discourses of community, subjectivity, power and prosperity …Read more
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166Are Refugees Special?In Sarah Fine & Lea Ypi (eds.), Migration in Political Theory: The Ethics of Movement and Membership, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.
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205Survey Article: Multiculturalism as Fairness: Will Kymlicka's Multicultural CitizenshipJournal of Political Philosophy 5 (4): 406-427. 1997.
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73One Cheer for Constantinople: A Comment on Pettit and Skinner on Hobbes and FreedomHobbes Studies 22 (2): 192-198. 2009.Philip Pettit and Quentin Skinner find Hobbes's understanding of freedom as non-interference inadequate because it fails to appreciate what is wrong with a life lived as a slave. Though their critiques have some force, however, Hobbes's view of freedom has virtues of its own. It is highly sensitive to the fact that freedom is a matter of degree. It is also unlikely to mistake freedom for something else, like security or dignity. Moreover, Hobbes is not as unmindful of the dangers of servility as…Read more
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13Islam, Democracy and Civil SocietyJournal des Economistes Et des Etudes Humaines 13 (2). 2003.The purpose of this article, more particularly, is to explore the place of Islam in the modern world-a world which contemporary writers increasingly try to understand by invoking the notions of democracy and civil society.For many, then, Islam stands in a relationship of tension with - if not complete antagonism to - democracy and modernity. It is a religion, and a philosophy, which is a throwback to the middle ages, and an obstacle to human progress.The concern of this essay is to argue that Is…Read more
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36Explaining Moral VarietySocial Philosophy and Policy 11 (1): 1-21. 1994.Reflection on the variety of forms of social life has long been a source of moral skepticism. The thought that there are many radically different social systems, each of which colors the way its members think about moral and political questions, has been thought by many moral philosophers to undermine confidence in our belief that our way of looking at-or even posing-these questions is the correct one. The fact of cultural variety is held to reduce, if not eliminate altogether, the possibility o…Read more
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