Title:
Equality and legitimacy
Author:
Sadurski, Wojciech, 1950-
ISBN:
9780199545179
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
xii, 259 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
1. Law's Legitimacy and Democracy -- Legitimacy of Law and the nullService -- Conceptionnull of Authority -- Authority and Identification of Valid Law -- nullService Conceptionnull and Democracy -- Justification and Obligation -- nullDemocracy without Valuesnull? -- nullDemocracy without valuesnull in the constitutional sense -- 2. Political Equality and Majority Rule -- Majority Rule and legitimacy: a Shortcut Link? -- Majority Rule and Intensity of Preferences -- Vote Trading and Equality -- Majority Rule, Unanimity and Equal Respect -- Majority Rule an the nullAggregation of Willsnull -- Outcomes and Procedures: nullDetachednull and nullDependentnull Conceptions of Democracy -- Equality of Influence, of Impact, and of Political Opportunity -- Equality of Political Opportunity and Majority Rule -- 3. Legal Equality -- Equality before and in the Law -- Equality in Law: A Non-Negotiable, Fundamentally Ambiguous Ideal -- The nullNo Differential Treatmentnull Standard -- Per se Theories and Immutable Characteristics -- Relevance, Circularity, and Levels of Scrutiny -- Suspectness and Discrimination -- 4. Social Equality (I): The Contours of Social Equality -- Social Equality: Individualized and Collective -- nullNatural and Social Lotterynull -- Self-Ownership and the nullExtensionsnull of a Right over One's Body -- Self: Thick and Thin -- Common Pool of Natural Abilities? -- 5. Social Equality (II): Luck Egalitarianism and Its Limits -- Luck and Responsibility in nullLuck Egalitarianismnull -- Luck Egalitarianism and Moral Intuitions about Equality -- Equality of Resources, of Welfare, and the Status of Preferences -- Persons, Circumstances and Talents in Luck Egalitarianism -- Resources and Welfare: Shortening the Gap -- How Egalitarian is Luck Egalitarianism?
Abstract:
"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 demonstrates 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."--BOOK JACKET.