Rethinking Equality: The challenge of equal citizenship

Chris Armstrong

doi:10.7765/9781847792013

This book provides a critical account of contemporary egalitarian theories. It challenges their focus on issues of choice and personal responsibility, and questions their ability to address the major inequalities that characterise the contemporary world, before presenting an alternative vision of egalitarian politics based on the challenge of a genuinely inclusive form of citizenship. This vision is defended through a critical discussion of four key issues in political theory: the recognition/redistribution debate, the connection between equality and responsibility, the ideal of equal opportunities, and the significance of ‘globalisation’ for the politics of equal citizenship. The book provides a critical account of the most important contemporary egalitarian theories, including the work of John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin and the luck egalitarians, Anne Phillips, Iris Young and Nancy Fraser. It also relates these theories to contemporary political (and especially citizenship) practice, assessing them in relation to the impact of neoliberalism on contemporary welfare states, and the shift from ‘social’ to ‘active’ forms of citizenship.

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The challenge of equal citizenship

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Front matter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp 1-20

Part I - A Critique of Liberal Equality
pp 21-22

1 - The troubled life of social citizenship: Rawls on equality
pp 23-54

2 - Equality, risk and responsibility: Dworkin on the insurance market
pp 55-77

3 - Equality versus social inclusion?
pp 78-94

Part II - Alternatives: Equality and citizenship
pp 95-96

4 - Equality and responsibility: Towards a more critical union?
pp 97-116

5 - Opportunities, outcomes and democratic citizenship: Young and Phillips on equality
pp 117-137

6 - Equalities: Recognition, redistribution and citizenship
pp 138-163

7 - Equality and citizenship in global perspective
pp 164-188

Conclusion
pp 189-195

References
pp 196-217

Index
pp 218-222

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