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Equality and Legitimacy

  • Hardback
  • 276 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 16.3 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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For students and scholars of legal and political theory

Clarifies the connection between legitimacy and equality

You will gain insights into democratic principles and fairness

This book explores the vital link between law, equality, and democracy.

This book examines the relationship between the idea of legitimacy of law in a democratic system and equality, conceived in a tripartite sense: political, legal, and social. Exploring the constituent elements of the legal philosophy underlying concepts of legitimacy, this book seeks to demonstrate how a conception of democratic legitimacy is necessary for understanding and reconciling equality and political legitimacy by tracing and examining the conceptions of equality in political, legal, and social dimensions. In the sphere of political equality this book argues that the best construction of equality in a democratic system - which resonates with the legitimizing function of majority rule - is that of equality of political opportunity. It is largely procedural, but those procedures represent important substantive values built into a majoritarian system. In the sphere of legal equality it argues that a plausible conception of non-discrimination can be constructed through a "reflective equilibrium" process, and should reject a thoughtless assumption that the presence of some particular criteria of differentiations necessarily taints a legal classification as discriminatory.
Finally, the chapters on social equality explore, in some detail, the currently influential, and presumptively attractive, "luck egalitarianism": the idea that social equality calls for neutralizing the disparate effects of bad brute luck upon a person's position in society.

Equality and Legitimacy and Sacred And The Profane
Sacred And The ProfaneEquality and Legitimacy

  • Title

    Equality and Legitimacy

  • Author

    Wojciech Sadurski

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    May 2008

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    276

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199545179

  • ISBN-10

    0199545170

  • Eden Code

    4563913

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