John Roemer points out that there are two views of equality of opportunity that are widely held in the late-20th century. The first, which he calls the nondiscrimination principle, states that in the competition for positions in society, individuals should be judged only on attributes relevant fo...
Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook equal opportunity (redirected fromEquality of opportunity) Thesaurus Legal Encyclopedia equal opportunity n. Absence of discrimination, as in the workplace, based on race, color, age, gender, national origin, religion, or mental or physical disability. ...
Equality of opportunity is a nice ideal, but in the real world, some of us have a head start over others. Somebody born with a silver spoon in his mouth in Beverly Hills, for example, will have an incomparably higher chance of a successful life than somebody born without a spoon at ...
Equality of opportunity is a popular ideal, both for assessing access to specific goods, such as jobs, education, and health, and as a more general principle of distributive justice. This chapter provides an overview of existing discussions of equality o
A. Cohen, Richard Arneson, and John Roemer have paved a new way of thinking about equality of opportunity, and infused it with radical egalitarian content. In this book,... (展开全部) 作者简介 ··· Shlomi Segall is a Senior Lecturer and the Chair of the Integrative Program in Politics...
reflect their unequalnat-ural endowments, even if we neutralised the influenceofsocial factors.²At thesame time, equalityofopportunity will always be frustrated by,and will alwaysmilitate against,acanonicalliberty to which liberalegalitarianism is committed,the freedom to have andraise children, ...
Equality of opportunity : the economics of responsibility This book is a collection of articles written by the two authors on the topic of equality of opportunity. All articles build on the idea that a just society should equalize the resources that determine the opportunities agents face in or....
Equality of Opportunity Must Be First Step to Give Us All Some Human Dignity; When First Minister Rhodri Morgan Set out the Stall for Welsh Socialism within the Labour Party He Ruled out the Notion of a Minister for Social Justice, Proposed by His Welsh Liberal Democrat Partners in Government...
Book Contents 内容简介 The need for a legislative framework for ensuring equality ofopportunity is not seriously questioned in the UK. However,despitethe presence on the Statute book of various significant pieceslegislation dating back to the mid 1970s, there remain deep-seatedstructural disadvantages ...
In the Connecticut case, the seven people — each a survivor or partner of a state-recognized gay spouse — say the act deprived them of the same federal benefits afforded heterosexual couples. Holder said the department will provide Congress “a full and fair opportunity to participate in the...