Dean Machin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4397548 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dean Machin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dean |
| FAMILY NAME | Machin |
| SIGNATURE | MACHIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leverhulme Trust |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rawls's Difference Principle as Compensation for Social Immobility
Outside academia, John Rawls's theory of justice—justice as fairness—has had little impact. This article is part of a broader project to rectify this. I offer a distinctive, second‐best, argument for Rawls's difference principle. The difference principle requires that inequalities in income and wealth are justified only if they benefit society's least‐advantaged citizens. My paper argues that, slightly‐modified, the difference principle is an exc…
Political Inequality and the ‘Super-Rich’
The Problem of Global Law
Compulsory Turnout
Politics has published a variety of articles recently on compulsory voting including Saunders' argument against it. This article argues against Saunders and makes some general claims. I show that there is a democratic values-based case for voter compulsion and that the case for compulsory turnout is not ‘parasitic’ on the case for compulsory voting as has been alleged. In making my argument I show that there is no general case for (or against) po…
The Irrelevance of Democracy to the Public Justification of Political Authority
Political Inequality and the ‘Super-Rich’
Compulsory Turnout
Politics has published a variety of articles recently on compulsory voting including Saunders' argument against it. This article argues against Saunders and makes some general claims. I show that there is a democratic values-based case for voter compulsion and that the case for compulsory turnout is not ‘parasitic’ on the case for compulsory voting as has been alleged. In making my argument I show that there is no general case for (or against) po…
The Irrelevance of Democracy to the Public Justification of Political Authority
The Problem of Global Law
Compulsory Turnout
Politics has published a variety of articles recently on compulsory voting including Saunders' argument against it. This article argues against Saunders and makes some general claims. I show that there is a democratic values-based case for voter compulsion and that the case for compulsory turnout is not ‘parasitic’ on the case for compulsory voting as has been alleged. In making my argument I show that there is no general case for (or against) po…
Political Inequality and the ‘Super-Rich’
Rawls's Difference Principle as Compensation for Social Immobility
Outside academia, John Rawls's theory of justice—justice as fairness—has had little impact. This article is part of a broader project to rectify this. I offer a distinctive, second‐best, argument for Rawls's difference principle. The difference principle requires that inequalities in income and wealth are justified only if they benefit society's least‐advantaged citizens. My paper argues that, slightly‐modified, the difference principle is an exc…
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Argument (complex analysis (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)