Property-Owning Democracy : Rawls and Beyond (Paperback)

About the Editors vii

Notes on Contributors viii

Acknowledgments xi

Foreword xiii
Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers

Introduction 1
Martin O’Neill and Thad Williamson

Part One: Property-Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations 15

1 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics of Property-Owning Democracy 17
Simone Chambers

2 Property-Owning Democracy: A Short History 33
Ben Jackson

3 Public Justification and the Right to Private Property: Welfare Rights as Compensation for Exclusion 53
Corey Brettschneider

4 Free (and Fair) Markets without Capitalism: Political Values, Principles of Justice, and Property-Owning Democracy 75
Martin O’Neill

5 Property-Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian Ethos 101
Alan Thomas

6 Property-Owning Democracy and Republican Citizenship 129
Stuart White

Part Two: Interrogating Property-Owning Democracy: Work, Gender, Political Economy 147

7 Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement 149
Nien-h^e Hsieh

8 Care, Gender, and Property-Owning Democracy 163
Ingrid Robeyns

9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic Corporatism 180
Waheed Hussain

10 Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? 201
David Schweickart

Part Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property-Owning Democracy: Program and Politics 223

11 Realizing Property-Owning Democracy: A 20-Year Strategy to Create an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States 225
Thad Williamson

12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, Human Capital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needs to Know 249
Sonia Sodha

13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property-Owning Democracy 266
Gar Alperovitz

14 Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration? 287
Thad Williamson

Index 307