Julia Maskivker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Maskivker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Maskivker |
| SIGNATURE | MASKIVKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rollins College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Merely voting or voting Well ? Democracy and the requirements of citizenship
Much ink has been spilled in the last years on whether voting is a duty that citizens ought to discharge in a democracy that aspires to be acceptably just. In this essay, I concentrate on whether a moral duty to participate in elections logically entails that people ought to vote simpliciter or well. I propose that voting well – i.e. with information and a sense of justice – is the electoral duty that we should value. Voting as such is not – at l…
Civic Virtue and an Ethics of Genuine Concern
In this paper, I accept Talisse’s diagnosis regarding democracy’s ill health—that hyper-active citizenship can paradoxically subvert democracy—but I argue that withdrawal—or “civic solitude”—is an inadequate remedy. I propose a shift in our normative understanding of citizenship toward virtues of genuine concern for others. This model moves past civility as classically understood in the public reason literature and stresses individual moral virtu…
Democratic Duties
This article reviews some of the most influential accounts of our democratic duties. It organizes the debate into three normative reasons that ground said duties: reasons of justice, reasons of citizen equality, and reasons of civic virtue. Although this division is somewhat forced—since duties can be justified on several considerations at the same time—it helps us organize the extremely scattered debates in the literature. Finally, the article c…
The Harm of Unreciprocated Labour
This article addresses two objections by Samuel Kahn to my argument for a living wage for life-sustaining workers. First, it refutes the charge that my position is patronising for asserting that low wages impede a worker’s ability to thrive. Second, it responds to a challenge regarding the claim that individuals have a right to a monetary equivalent of their fair share of natural resources, and that this right can be used to determine the justice…
Justice and Contribution: A Narrow Argument for Living Wages
This paper examines whether certain workers have a moral claim to decent wages for work that contributes to the social surplus in a fundamental way. This "fundamental" way refers to work whose fruits other members of society need to live acceptably good lives (not maximally good ones). The paper argues that what is due to this type of worker is based on the nature of the benefit that her labor produces for others in society and on the returned va…
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Why a Uniform Basic Income Offends Justice
This article explains why the traditional defense of the Basic Income policy is flawed in its assumptions about allocative uniformity. The paper argues that treating everybody identically by way of a uniform grant is ultimately in tension with the egalitarian rationale behind the Basic Income. Phillipe Van Parijs, the champion defender of the policy proposal, has fervently argued that unconditional receipt of a universal grant will render society…
Being a Good Samaritan Requires You to Vote
Do citizens have a moral duty to vote, or is the franchise just a right they are free to exercise or to abstain from, at will? The prevalent position in voting ethics is that citizens should be free to choose whether or not to exercise their right to vote. This article situates itself in opposition to the prevalent account and develops an argument supporting (1) a moral duty to vote and (2) a moral duty to vote well. I argue that a duty of Samari…
An Epistemic Justification for the Obligation to Vote
Received wisdom in most democracies is that voting should be seen as a political freedom that citizens have a right to exercise at their discretion. But I propose that we have a duty to vote, albeit a duty to vote well: with knowledge and a sense of impartiality. Fulfillment of this obligation would contribute to the epistemic advantages of democracy, and would thereby instantiate the duty to promote and support just institutions
Self-Realization and Justice: A Liberal-Perfectionist Defense of the Right to Freedom from Employment
In this book, Maskivker argues that there ought to be a right not to participate in the paid economy in a new way; not by appealing to notions of fairness to competing conceptions of the good, but rather to a contentious (but defensible) normative ideal, namely, self-realization. In so doing, she joins a venerable tradition in ethical thought, initiated by Aristotle and developed in the work of important eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers…
Work lovers, freedom, and basic income
Employment as a Limitation on Self-Ownership
A non-cosmopolitan case for sovereign debt relief
This article develops the argument that non-cosmopolitan considerations of justice justify relief of sovereign debt for highly indebted poor states. In particular, the article claims that considerations of national determination warrant some debt-forgiveness in the backdrop of unfair terms of global interaction. In a context of inequality, poor countries cannot generally afford to disregard the costs of ignoring the interests of the wealthiest st…
Participation and Rights in Athenian Democracy: A Habermasian Approach
This article analyzes the actual interaction of private and public immunities in ancient Athens, and argues that ancient democracy echoed to a greater extent than traditionally assumed the general dynamics and normative foundations of deliberative democracy. Without denying the important differences that distinguish ancient democratic Athens from modern democracy, I analyze the Athenian situation in light of Habermas's theory of deliberation, and…
Being a Good Samaritan Requires You to Vote
Do citizens have a moral duty to vote, or is the franchise just a right they are free to exercise or to abstain from, at will? The prevalent position in voting ethics is that citizens should be free to choose whether or not to exercise their right to vote. This article situates itself in opposition to the prevalent account and develops an argument supporting (1) a moral duty to vote and (2) a moral duty to vote well. I argue that a duty of Samari…
An Epistemic Justification for the Obligation to Vote
Received wisdom in most democracies is that voting should be seen as a political freedom that citizens have a right to exercise at their discretion. But I propose that we have a duty to vote, albeit a duty to vote well: with knowledge and a sense of impartiality. Fulfillment of this obligation would contribute to the epistemic advantages of democracy, and would thereby instantiate the duty to promote and support just institutions
Employment as a Limitation on Self-Ownership
A non-cosmopolitan case for sovereign debt relief
This article develops the argument that non-cosmopolitan considerations of justice justify relief of sovereign debt for highly indebted poor states. In particular, the article claims that considerations of national determination warrant some debt-forgiveness in the backdrop of unfair terms of global interaction. In a context of inequality, poor countries cannot generally afford to disregard the costs of ignoring the interests of the wealthiest st…
Participation and Rights in Athenian Democracy: A Habermasian Approach
This article analyzes the actual interaction of private and public immunities in ancient Athens, and argues that ancient democracy echoed to a greater extent than traditionally assumed the general dynamics and normative foundations of deliberative democracy. Without denying the important differences that distinguish ancient democratic Athens from modern democracy, I analyze the Athenian situation in light of Habermas's theory of deliberation, and…
Work lovers, freedom, and basic income
Self-Realization and Justice: A Liberal-Perfectionist Defense of the Right to Freedom from Employment
In this book, Maskivker argues that there ought to be a right not to participate in the paid economy in a new way; not by appealing to notions of fairness to competing conceptions of the good, but rather to a contentious (but defensible) normative ideal, namely, self-realization. In so doing, she joins a venerable tradition in ethical thought, initiated by Aristotle and developed in the work of important eighteenth and nineteenth century thinkers…
An Epistemic Justification for the Obligation to Vote
Received wisdom in most democracies is that voting should be seen as a political freedom that citizens have a right to exercise at their discretion. But I propose that we have a duty to vote, albeit a duty to vote well: with knowledge and a sense of impartiality. Fulfillment of this obligation would contribute to the epistemic advantages of democracy, and would thereby instantiate the duty to promote and support just institutions
Why a Uniform Basic Income Offends Justice
This article explains why the traditional defense of the Basic Income policy is flawed in its assumptions about allocative uniformity. The paper argues that treating everybody identically by way of a uniform grant is ultimately in tension with the egalitarian rationale behind the Basic Income. Phillipe Van Parijs, the champion defender of the policy proposal, has fervently argued that unconditional receipt of a universal grant will render society…
Being a Good Samaritan Requires You to Vote
Do citizens have a moral duty to vote, or is the franchise just a right they are free to exercise or to abstain from, at will? The prevalent position in voting ethics is that citizens should be free to choose whether or not to exercise their right to vote. This article situates itself in opposition to the prevalent account and develops an argument supporting (1) a moral duty to vote and (2) a moral duty to vote well. I argue that a duty of Samari…
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An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Justice and Contribution: A Narrow Argument for Living Wages
This paper examines whether certain workers have a moral claim to decent wages for work that contributes to the social surplus in a fundamental way. This "fundamental" way refers to work whose fruits other members of society need to live acceptably good lives (not maximally good ones). The paper argues that what is due to this type of worker is based on the nature of the benefit that her labor produces for others in society and on the returned va…
The Harm of Unreciprocated Labour
This article addresses two objections by Samuel Kahn to my argument for a living wage for life-sustaining workers. First, it refutes the charge that my position is patronising for asserting that low wages impede a worker’s ability to thrive. Second, it responds to a challenge regarding the claim that individuals have a right to a monetary equivalent of their fair share of natural resources, and that this right can be used to determine the justice…
Merely voting or voting Well ? Democracy and the requirements of citizenship
Much ink has been spilled in the last years on whether voting is a duty that citizens ought to discharge in a democracy that aspires to be acceptably just. In this essay, I concentrate on whether a moral duty to participate in elections logically entails that people ought to vote simpliciter or well. I propose that voting well – i.e. with information and a sense of justice – is the electoral duty that we should value. Voting as such is not – at l…
Civic Virtue and an Ethics of Genuine Concern
In this paper, I accept Talisse’s diagnosis regarding democracy’s ill health—that hyper-active citizenship can paradoxically subvert democracy—but I argue that withdrawal—or “civic solitude”—is an inadequate remedy. I propose a shift in our normative understanding of citizenship toward virtues of genuine concern for others. This model moves past civility as classically understood in the public reason literature and stresses individual moral virtu…
Democratic Duties
This article reviews some of the most influential accounts of our democratic duties. It organizes the debate into three normative reasons that ground said duties: reasons of justice, reasons of citizen equality, and reasons of civic virtue. Although this division is somewhat forced—since duties can be justified on several considerations at the same time—it helps us organize the extremely scattered debates in the literature. Finally, the article c…
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