Social rights under the constitution : government and the decent life / Cecile Fabre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fabre, Cécile.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Those in favour of social rights do not usually reflect on the implications of their arguments for democracy and vice versa. This book illustrates the conflict between the demands of democracy and those of social rights.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""List of Abbreviations""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Social Rights""; ""Introduction""; ""1.1 Autonomy and Well-Being""; ""1.1.1 Autonomy""; ""1.1.2 Well-Being""; ""1.2 Rights""; ""1.2.1 An Account of Rights""; ""1.2.2 The Value of Leading a Decent Life""; ""1.3 Autonomy, Well-Being and Needs""; ""1.3.1 Autonomy and Material Needs""; ""1.3.2 Well-Being and Material Needs""; ""1.4 From Needs to Social Rights""; ""1.4.1 Reasons for Assigning Rights""; ""1.4.2 Right-Holders""; ""1.4.3 Content of Social Rights""; ""Conclusion""; ""2. Negative and Positive Rights""; ""Introduction""

""2.1 Two Often Conflated Distinctions""""2.2 The Complementarity Thesis""; ""2.3 Objections against the Complementarity Thesis""; ""2.3.1 A Linguistic Objection""; ""2.3.2 Shue's Argument""; ""2.4 Positive and Negative Social Rights: whose Duties?""; ""Conclusion""; ""3. Constitutional Social Rights""; ""Introduction""; ""3.1 A Theory of the Constitution""; ""3.1.1 The Formal Characteristics of the Modern Constitution""; ""3.1.2 Deciding on the Content of the Constitution""; ""3.1.3 What Should Be Entrenched in the Constitution, and Why?""; ""3.2 Bills of Rights""

""3.2.1 Hohfeld's Typology and Interest-Based Theories of Rights""""3.2.2 Rights against Private Individuals and Rights against the State""; ""3.2.3 From Moral Rights to Constitutional Rights""; ""3.2.4 A Rights-Based Objection against Constitutional Rights""; ""Conclusion""; ""4. Constitutional Social Rights and Democracy""; ""Introduction""; ""4.1 A Procedural Conception of Democracy""; ""4.2 Political Citizenship and Constitutional Social Rights""; ""4.2.1 Constitutional Social Rights and the Capacity to Participate Politically""

""4.2.2 Constitutional Social Rights and the Willingness to Participate Politically""""4.3 Objections against Bills of Rights as Undemocratic""; ""4.4 Democratic Decision-Making and Constitutional Social Rights""; ""Conclusion""; ""5. The Implementation of Constitutional Social Rights""; ""Introduction""; ""5.1 The Vagueness of Constitutional Social Rights""; ""5.1.1 Levels of Provision""; ""5.1.2 The State's Resources""; ""5.1.3 The State's Duty to Take Appropriate Steps""; ""5.2 Assessing Constitutional Judicial Review of Constitutional Social Rights""; ""5.2.1 A Dual System of Protection""

""5.2.2 Constitutional Judicial Review versus Constitutional Judicial Preview""""5.2.3 Individual Petition versus Collective Complaints and Class Action""; ""Conclusion""; ""Conclusion""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [188]-198) and index.

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ISBN:

1-281-97086-7

9786611970864

0-19-152276-7

0-585-35264-X

OCLC:

47007942