"In [this book], Chris Armstrong provides a critical account of contemporary egalitarian theories. He challenges their focus on issues of choice and personal responsibility, and questions their ability to address the major inequalities that characterize the contemporary world, b…
Useful for students of contemporary political theory, this book provides an account of the important contemporary egalitarian theories. It relates egalitarian theories to contemporary political practice, assessing them in relation to the impact of neoliberalism on welfare states…
Although formally equal, relations between citizens are actually characterised by many and varied forms of inequality. Do contemporary theories of equality provide an adequate response to the inequalities that afflict contemporary societies? And what is the connection between th…
Global ethics focuses on the most pressing contemporary ethical issues - poverty, global trade, terrorism, torture, pollution, climate change and the management of scarce resourses. It draws on moral and political philosophy, political and social science, empirical research, and…
Global distributive justice is now part of mainstream political debate. It incorporates issues that are now a familiar feature of the political landscape, such as global poverty, trade justice, aid to the developing world and debt cancellation. This is the first textbook to focu…
Global distributive justice is now part of mainstream political debate. It incorporates issues that are now a familiar feature of the political landscape, such as global poverty, trade justice, aid to the developing world and debt cancellation. This is the first textbook to focu…
Global distributive justice is now part of mainstream political debate. It incorporates issues that are now a familiar feature of the political landscape, such as global poverty, trade justice, aid to the developing world and debt cancellation. This is the first textbook to focu…