Levelling the Playing Field: The Idea of Equal Opportunity and its Place in Egalitarian Thought

Levelling the Playing Field: The Idea of Equal Opportunity and its Place in Egalitarian Thought

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1-256

  Mason, Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circumstances; Egalitarianism; Equality; Meritocracy; Opportunity; Political rhetoric; Redistributive principles; Social position

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921964080     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264414.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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