Population and Political Theory
ISBN: 9781444330380 | 1444330381
Edition: 1stFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Pub. Date: 3/8/2010
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Population and Political Theory brings together current thinking on issues at the intersection of population policy and political theory. Featuring contributions from leading philosophers, political scientists, economists, and experts in social policy, this unique, broad-ranging volume makes a significant contribution to the debates surrounding one of the most profound concerns of the twenty-first century. Topics explored include population size, immigration and refugees, intergenerational justice, population characteristics and shaping childre... MORE
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Population & Political Theory | |
| Population & Ethics: Expanding the Moral Space | |
| Should We Value Population? | |
| Regarding Optimum Population | |
| On Doing the Best for Our Children | |
| Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal Interest | |
| On Future Generations' Future Rights | ... MORE |
| Justice Between Adjacent Generations: Further Thoughts | |
| Generations at War or Sustainable Social Policy in Ageing Societies | |
| Dependency, Difference and Global Ethic of Longterm Care | |
| Live-in Domestics, Seasonal Workers, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy | |
| Immigrants, Nations and Citizenship | |
| Justice in Migration: A Closed Borders Utopia? | |
| The Ethics of Refugee Policy | |
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James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science. He is also Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and has been co-editor of the Philosophy, Politics and Society series since 1979. He is the author of a number of books on both democratic theory and the theory of justice, including When the People Speak (2009) and The Dialogue of Justice (1992).
Robert E. Goodin is a Distinguished Professor of both Philosophy and of Social and Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University; and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. He is Editor of a 10-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science and the Journal of Political Philosophy. His latest book is Innovating Democracy (2008).
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