Justice across ages : treating young and old as equals / Juliana Uhuru Bidadanure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bidadanure, Juliana, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intergenerational relations.

Social policy.

Social justice.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

Age structures our lives and societies. It shapes social institutions, roles, and relationships, as well as how we assign obligations and entitlements within them. There is an age for schooling, an age for voting, an age for working, and an age when one is expected (and sometimes required) to retire. Each life-stage also brings its characteristic opportunities and vulnerabilities, which spawn multidimensional inequalities between young and old. How should we respond to these age-related inequalities? Are they unfair in the same way that gender or racial inequalities often are? Or is there something distinctive about age that should mitigate ethical concern? This book addresses these and related questions, offering an ambitious theory of justice between age groups.

Contents:

Cover

Justice Across Ages: Treating Young and Old as Equals

Copyright

Acknowledgments

Contents

List of Figures and Table

Introduction

Part I

1: Equality over Time

1.1 The Puzzle of Age Discrimination: Is Age Like Gender and Race?

1.2 The "Equality Through Time" Debate and Its Implications

1.2.1 The "Equality Through Time" Debate

1.2.2 Disambiguating the Concept of Generations

1.2.3 Implications of the "Equality Through Time" Debate for Generational Issues

1.3 Motivating the Complete Lives Approach

1.4 Approximate Equality Between Birth Cohorts

1.5 Complete Lives Egalitarianism and Age-Group Justice

2: Lifespan Prudence

2.1 The Features of the Prudential Lifespan Account

2.2 The Outcomes of the Prudential Lifespan Account

2.2.1 The Lifespan Sufficiency Principle

2.2.2 The Lifespan Efficiency Principle

2.3 Objections

2.3.1 The Longevity Objection

2.3.2 The Demographic Objection

2.3.3 The Liberal Neutrality Objection

2.3.4 The Intersectionality Objection

2.4 Conclusions

3: Relational Equality Between Age Groups

3.1 McKerlie's Simultaneous Segments Egalitarianism

3.1.1 Why Isn't Diachronic Fairness Enough?

3.1.2 Why does the Simultaneous Segments View Fail?

3.2 Relational and Distributive Equality

3.3 Relational Equality Between Age Groups

3.3.1 Synchronic Relational Equality

3.3.2 Relational Equality Between Age Groups

3.4 Objections

3.4.1 Objection 1: The Relational Explanation Is Not Needed

There Is a Distributive View that Can Explain Our Intuitions Just A

3.4.2 Objection 2: The Relational View Is Vulnerable to the Arbitrariness Objection Too

3.5 Conclusions

4: Treating Young and Old as Equals

4.1 Summary

4.2 Internal Conflicts

4.3 A Final Take on a Few Examples

4.4 Treating the Young as Equals: What Does It Mean?.

4.4.1 Lifespan Sufficiency: Ensuring Young People Have "Enough"

4.4.2 Synchronic Relational Equality: Ensuring the Young Are Able to Stand as Equals

4.4.3 Lifespan Efficiency: Regulating Diachronic Clustering of Disadvantage

4.4.4 Approximate Cohort Equality: Mitigating Scarring Effects

4.5 Conclusions

Part II

5: Age, Jobs, and Inequalities

5.1 A Special Right to Work for the Young: The Youth Job Guarantee

5.2 A Special Duty to Retire for Older Workers: Mandatory Retirement

5.3 A Special Duty to Work for the Young: The Youth Guarantee

5.4 Labor, the Workplace, and Age Discrimination

5.5 Conclusion: Towards an Age-IntegratedWorkplace?

6: Basic Income versus Basic Capital: A Temporal Perspective

6.1 Which Program Aligns Best with Lifespan Prudence?

6.2 Which Policy Promotes Complete Lives Equality Best?

6.2.1 Social Inequalities Between Life Courses

6.2.2 Inequalities Between Longevity Groups

6.2.3 Inequalities Between Birth Cohorts

6.3 Which Is Best for Synchronic Relational Equality?

6.4 A Concluding Proposal

7: Youth-ing Politics: A Defense of Youth Quotas in Parliaments

7.1 Substantive Representation

7.1.1 Narrowing the Scope of Substantive Representation

7.1.2 Preventing the Exclusion of Youth Interests from the Party Packaging of Political Ideas

7.1.3 Increasing the Chance of More Vigorous Advocacy on Behalf of the Young

7.1.4 Cognitive Diversity and Parliamentary Competence

7.1.5 Youth Quotas and Intergenerational Justice

7.2 Symbolic Representation

7.3 Age or Cohort Quotas

7.4 Conclusions

Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-251064-9

0-19-183430-0

0-19-251063-0

OCLC:

1247675979