European Duties of Social Justice
A Kantian Framework
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6279327 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Romy Claassen (0000-0001-7314-4986, Utrecht University Utrecht, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44-59 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9886 • E-ISSN: 1468-5965 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/jcms.12813 |
| OpenAlex | W2910513493 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 36 |
This contribution asks how to approach the question of whether the European Union should – replacing or supplementing member states – also be a locus of social justice‐based duties to provide welfare state services. The contribution scrutinizes two important theories of global justice (cosmopolitan and relational theories) and finds that their normative assumptions hinder them from adequately addressing this question. A new theory is proposed, inspired by Immanuel Kant's political philosophy. The core idea is that social justice requires public authorities to protect citizens against private forms of coercion; and that the level (national, European, global) at which such authority needs to be exercised depends on which arrangement best protects citizens' rights to independence. The paper outlines several duties of global justice to give specificity to this general principle, and then applies them to the case of integrating European welfare states
Coercion (linguistics · Economic Justice · Economics · European union · Global justice · Independence (probability theory · Law and economics · Normative · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Welfare state · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Capabilities in a Just Society
Treaty Preambles and The Environmental Justice Gap
The Union shall promote social justice
The EU 's role in income redistribution and insurance
From an Ordoliberal idea to a Social‐Democratic ideal? The European Parliament and the institutionalization of ‘social market economy’ in the European Union (1957‐2007)
Solidarity in the European Union
Citizenship and Social Class
An Agency‐Based Capability Theory of Justice
Capabilities in a Just Society
Immanuel Kant
World Poverty and Human Rights
Individualism and Economic Order
Cosmopolitan Europe? Cosmopolitan justice against EU-centredness
No right to unilaterally claim your territory
Small‐State Nostalgia? The Currency Union, Germany, and Europe
Kant's Sovereignty Dilemma
How Practices Matter
Justice and the Priority of Politics to Morality
The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
The asymmetry of European integration, or why the EU cannot be a 'social market economy
The European Nation-State
Making Sense of the EU
The Idea of a Cosmopolitan Europe
The normative ethics of the European Union
Defining the demos
The three worlds of welfare capitalism
Global Justice, Reciprocity, and the State
The Irrelevance of Coercion, Imposition, and Framing to Distributive Justice
International regimes, transactions, and change
Between Facts and Norms
Cosmopolitanism
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |