Title: Liberal equality /
Authors: Gutmann, Amy.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xi, 318 pages ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: J
Contents: Introduction: Equality, liberty, and liberal theory -- ch.1 The classical liberal foundations -- Two equality assumptions -- Equal passions -- Equal rationality -- The convergence of the two equalities -- ch.2. J.S. Mill and participatory opportunity -- The Millean integration -- Political consequences of integration: a preliminary investigation -- Rational and participatory government: the tension observed -- The laissez-faire principle -- The participatory ideal expanded: economic life -- ch.3 The Fabians and their allies : the minimal welfare state and beyond -- Benthamite utilitarianism revisited -- The minimal welfare state: socialism versus liberalism? -- Two faces of socialism -- Tawney's perspective: egalitarian fellowship -- Fabians of the fifties: Crosland and Crossman -- ch.4. The relevant reasons for liberal egalitarianism -- The relevant-reasons approach -- Needs and economic distribution -- The relativism of relevant reasons -- Consent and political power --^ Desert and equal opportunity -- Beyond the logic of relevant reasons -- ch.5. John Rawls and distributive equality -- Equality and the original position -- The two principles revised -- The difference principle and equality -- Self-respect and the fair value of liberty -- Rawls and utilitarianism -- ch. 6. Contemporary critics of liberal egalitarianism : left and right -- The challenge from the left -- The libertarian critique -- Distribution according to desert rejected -- Equality and the nature of justification -- ch.7. Participatory and distributive equality reintegrated -- Two faces of liberal egalitarianism, or one? -- The values of equal participation -- The argument for compulsory equal participation reexamined -- Participation beyond the strictly political -- Community control of schools -- Realms of participation and realms of constitutional principle -- Industrial democracy -- Bureaucracy, professionalism, and participation -- Participation and popular sovereignty --^ Conclusion: The limits of liberal egalitarian politics.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Equality.; Liberalism.