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INSURANCE AND EQUALITY REVISITED

Author(s) -

L. Chad Horne

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

public affairs quarterly

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2152-0542

pISSN - 0887-0373

DOI - 10.2307/26909994

Subject(s) - egalitarianism , distributive property , distributive justice , meaning (existential) , object (grammar) , sociology , welfare , work (physics) , social psychology , law and economics , positive economics , epistemology , political science , economic justice , economics , psychology , law , computer science , politics , philosophy , mathematics , mechanical engineering , artificial intelligence , pure mathematics , engineering

Theorists of the welfare state increasingly recognize that social insurance programs are not well-justified by distributive egalitarianism, meaning concern for equality considered as a pattern in the distribution of some good. However, recent work by several relational egalitarian theorists suggests that these programs may be justified on relational egalitarian grounds. Relational egalitarians hold that the proper object of egalitarian concern is the way that citizens relate to one another. In this paper, I review the problems facing a distributive egalitarian justification for social insurance before considering and rejecting three relational egalitarian justifications. I close by offering a justification for these programs grounded in efficiency, not equality.

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