Property-Owning Democracy

Martin O’Neill is Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Politics at the University of York. He has previously been Hallsworth Research Fellow in Political Economy at the University of Manchester, a Research Fellow in Philosophy and Politics at St John’s College, University of Cambridge, and a Hoover Fellow in Economic and Social Ethics at the Université catholique de Louvain. He is co-editor (with Shepley Orr) of a forthcoming book, Taxation and Political Philosophy. Thad Williamson is Associate Professor of Leadership Studies and Philosophy, Politics, Economics and Law, University of Richmond. He is the author of Sprawl, Justice and Citizenship: The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life, co-author (with Gar Alperovitz and David Imbroscio) of Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era, and co-editor (with Douglas Hicks) of the upcoming Leadership and Global Justice.

• Notes on Contributors viiAcknowledgments xiForeword xiiiJoshua Cohen and Joel RogersIntroduction 1Martin O’Neill and Thad WilliamsonPart One: Property-Owning Democracy: Theoretical Foundations 151 Justice or Legitimacy, Barricades or Public Reason? The Politics of Property-Owning Democracy 17Simone Chambers2 Property-Owning Democracy: A Short History 33Ben Jackson3 Public Justification and the Right to Private Property: Welfare Rights as Compensation for Exclusion 53Corey Brettschneider4 Free (and Fair) Markets without Capitalism: Political Values, Principles of Justice, and Property-Owning Democracy 75Martin O’Neill5 Property-Owning Democracy, Liberal Republicanism, and the Idea of an Egalitarian Ethos 101Alan Thomas6 Property-Owning Democracy and Republican Citizenship 129Stuart WhitePart Two: Interrogating Property-Owning Democracy: Work, Gender, Political Economy 1477 Work, Ownership, and Productive Enfranchisement 149Nien-he Hsieh8 Care, Gender, and Property-Owning Democracy 163Ingrid Robeyns9 Nurturing the Sense of Justice: The Rawlsian Argument for Democratic Corporatism 180Waheed Hussain10 Property-Owning Democracy or Economic Democracy? 201David SchweickartPart Three: Toward a Practical Politics of Property-Owning Democracy: Program and Politics 22311 Realizing Property-Owning Democracy: A 20-Year Strategy to Create an Egalitarian Distribution of Assets in the United States 225Thad Williamson12 The Empirical and Policy Linkage between Primary Goods, Human Capital, and Financial Capital: What Every Political Theorist Needs to Know 249Sonia Sodha13 The Pluralist Commonwealth and Property-Owning Democracy 266Gar Alperovitz14 Is Property-Owning Democracy a Politically Viable Aspiration? 287Thad WilliamsonIndex 307

"In this very instructive, wide-ranging, and most welcome volume, Martin O'Neill and Thad Williamson have assembled fourteen thoughtful essays and a substantial introduction which together explore its meaning and history, and the prospects of its implementation. The book has a great deal to interest political philosophers and theorists, political scientists, political economists, and reflective political activists on the left."  (Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 8 July 2013)