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From Workers to Migrants, from Distributive Justice to Inclusion: Exploring the Changing Social Democratic Imagination
Author(s) -
Somek Alexander
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european law journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1468-0386
pISSN - 1351-5993
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0386.2012.00625.x
Subject(s) - distributive justice , solidarity , redistribution (election) , democracy , egalitarianism , sociology , nationality , economic justice , inclusion (mineral) , politics , odds , social psychology , political science , immigration , psychology , social science , law , medicine , logistic regression
There is little awareness that from the perspective of distributive justice, a transnational market society exercises a justice‐disabling effect. No longer is society perceived to be a system of co‐operation, the net product of which is to be distributed among all participants fairly, but rather viewed as a composite of uncoordinated templates for the individual pursuit of opportunities. A society of this type does no longer regard a centralised political effort at redistribution as its essential objective; rather, its most fundamental principle concerns equal access to opportunities without regard to nationality or local preference. Such a concern with inclusion appears to be at odds with the received vision of distributive justice whose realisation presupposes bounded solidarity and, hence, closure.