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Giustizia, uguaglianza e differenza : una guida alla letteratura della filosofia politica contemporanea
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Firenze : Firenze University Press,

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At least until the beginning of the 1990s, when the paradigm of recognition seemed to supplant the paradigm of redistributive justice theories, all the biggest contemporary political theories attempted to single out injustice in some form of inequality and tried in various ways to make individuals equal within a particular space for interpersonal comparison: whether this be the space of fundamental freedoms, income, wealth, conditions for self-respect, well-being, chances of well-being or capabilities. The objective of this work is to rebuild the main notions of equality and justice which have emerged from the contemporary philosophical-political debate and, at the same time, account for the critical theories that they have inspired, from the theories in which the language of difference adds to or surpasses the language of equality, to the paradigms located radically beyond all those regulatory positions which more or less explicitly arise from the liberal tradition, such as the paradigm of biopolitics, and that of cognitive capitalism.

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Equality. --- Justice.


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99 to 1 : how wealth inequality is wrecking the world and what we can do about it
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ISBN: 1280128267 9786613532145 160994593X 9781609945930 9781609945947 1609945948 1609945921 9781609945923 9781280128264 6613532142 Year: 2012 Publisher: San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers,

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"We are the 99%" is the rallying cry of millions of people involved in the "Occupy Wall Street" movement. This is the first book to pull together in once place detailed information about the 1% and the 99% in all realms of society, the causes and consequences of this deep inequality, and what can be done about it. Chuck Collins has long been one of the world's top writers, speakers, and activists on this topic.


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The new gilded age
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ISBN: 0804781990 9780804781992 9780804759359 9780804759366 0804759359 0804759367 Year: 2012 Publisher: Stanford, Calif. Stanford University Press

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Income inequality is an increasingly pressing issue in the United States and around the world. This book explores five critical issues to introduce some of the key moral and empirical questions about income, gender, and racial inequality: Do we have a moral obligation to eliminate poverty?Is inequality a necessary evil that's the best way available to motivate economic action and increase total output?Can we retain a meaningful democracy even when extreme inequality allows the rich to purchase political privilege?Is the recent stalling out of long-term declines in gender inequality


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Filling the credibility gap
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ISBN: 9781619429918 1619429918 9781619429901 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hauppauge, N.Y. : Nova Science Publishers,

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Social inequalities
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ISBN: 9781613249048 1613249047 9781613248423 1613248423 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York

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Legislating for Equality : A Multinational Collection of Non-Discrimination Norms. Volume I: Europe
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Leiden : BRILL,

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The publication consists of a comprehensive collection of all UN member states' legislation on non-discrimination, protection of minorities, prohibition of hate-crimes and hate speech. The publication, divided into four volumes (according to continents), provides a legal model for combating discrimination through national legislation.


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Planning as if people matter : governing for social equity
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ISBN: 1610912330 9781610912334 9781610910118 1610910117 9781610910125 1610910125 Year: 2012 Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Island Press,

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Facing social class : how societal rank influences interaction
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ISBN: 1610447816 9780871544797 0871544792 9781610447812 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Russell Sage Foundation,

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Toward leader democracy
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ISBN: 128049106X 9786613586292 1843317710 9781843317715 9780857283887 085728388X 1783080647 Year: 2012 Publisher: London : Anthem Press,

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‘Toward Leader Democracy’ investigates how today’s liberal democratic regimes are increasingly moving toward a pronounced focus on political leaders and their image, and explores the mechanics, evolution and implications of this phenomenon.


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Democracy without politics
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ISBN: 0674062930 9780674062931 9780674058224 0674058224 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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In Western democracies today, politics and politicians are held in contempt by the majority of citizens. Steven Bilakovics argues that this disdain of politics follows neither from the discontents of our liberal political system nor from the preoccupations of a consumer society. Rather, extending Tocqueville's analysis of the modern democratic way of life, he traces the sources of political cynicism to democracy itself. Democratic society's defining openness-its promise of transcendent freedom and unlimited power-renders the everyday politics of argument and persuasion absurd by comparison. Persuasion is devalued relative to the norms of free-market competition and patriotic community, assertions of self-interest and self-expression take the place of arguing together, and political life is diminished by the absence of mediating talk. Bilakovics identifies this trend across the political landscape-in the clashing authenticities of the ";culture war,"; the perennial pursuit of the political outsider to set things right again, the call for a postpartisan politics, rising demands on government alongside falling expectations of what government can do, and in a political rhetoric that is at once petty and hyperbolic. To reform democratic politics and ameliorate its pathologies, Bilakovics calls on us to overcome our anti-political prejudice and rethink robust democracy as the citizen's practice of persuading and being persuaded in turn.

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