Martin O’Neill is Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He has previously been Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester, a Research Fellow in Philosophy and Politics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and a Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the Université catholique de Louvain. He is co-editor (with Shepley Orr) of a forthcoming book, Taxation and Political Philosophy.
Thad Williamson is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University of Richmond. He is the author of Sprawl, Justice and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life, co-author (with Gar Alperovitz and David Imbroscio) of Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era, and co-editor (with Douglas Hicks) of the upcoming Leadership and Global Justice.
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-he 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
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