" Notions such as wellbeing, freedom, and social justice are integral to evaluating social
progress and developing policies. One increasingly influential way to think about these …

Research by many feminist economists bears a set of common methodological features,
which Marilyn Power has identified as the social provisioning approach (SPA). This chapter …

To date there is no systematic exploration of the concept of 'political feasibility'. We believe
that feasibility is a central issue for political philosophy, conceptually as well as practically …

Human dignity: social movements invoke it, several national constitutions enshrine it, and it
features prominently in international human rights documents. But what is human dignity …

We only have to go back fifty years to find women conditioned into the domestic servitude of
men; and a few hundred years to find black people kept by white people as slaves. At either …

Do we have positive duties to help others in need or are our moral duties only negative,
focused on not harming them? Are any of the former positive duties, duties of justice that …

We are deeply social creatures. Our core social needs--for meaningful social inclusion--are
more important than our civil and political needs and our economic welfare needs, and we …

When interest in political realism started to resurge a few years ago, it was not uncommon to
interpret realist political theory as a form of non-ideal theorising. This reading has been …

Proposals for how to redesign democracy so as to better secure the demands of
intergenerational justice can be divided into three broad families:(1) representative …

There is a widespread belief that, conceptually, justice cannot require what we cannot
achieve. This belief is sometimes used by defenders of so‐called 'non‐ideal theories of …