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Capabilities in a just society : a theory of navigational agency / Rutger Claassen

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018

1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 264 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2018)

978-1-108-56185-3 ( : ebook)

978-1-108-47326-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-108-46112-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 1079417508     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/9781108561853

HB846.8

302/.13     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Capabilities approach (Social sciences) ; Social choice

Social choice ; Capabilities approach (Social sciences)

What sort of entitlements should citizens have in a just society? In this book, Rutger Claassen sets out a theory of what he terms 'navigational agency', whereby citizens should be able to navigate freely between social practices. This shows how individuals can be at the same time free and autonomous in striving for their own goals in life, but also embedded in social practices in which they have to cooperate with others. He argues that for navigational agency, people need three sets of core capabilities: those which allow human empowerment in civil society, a decent level of socio-economic subsistence, and political participation in democratic decision-making procedures. The idea of navigational agency, the book argues, provides an alternative to currently dominant versions of the capability approach to social justice, and strengthens its liberal foundations

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Liberalism : combining perfectionism and neutrality -- An agency-based capability theory of justice -- Justifying the right to navigational agency -- The distribution of capabilities -- Empowerment capabilities and civil freedom -- Subsistence capabilities and socio-economic justice -- Political capabilities and democracy