Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration?

Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 287-306

  Williamson, Thad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguous politics of John Rawls; American liberalism, premature, for strong conclusions; Corporate viability by shutting down production and jobs, not feasible; POD and why it is so sorely needed; POD viability, and the degree of wealth concentrated; POD's political plausibility, advocates for POD in a "war of position"; POD, a quite distinct ideal from welfare state liberalism; POD, and whether a politically viable aspiration; Progressive political forces, a lack of political economy and organization; Rawls's set of economic arrangements, systemic critique of modern capitalism

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EID: 84885623492     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444355192.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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