Temporal Justice, Youth Quotas and Libertarianism
Publication year
2015Author(s)
Source
Intergenerational Justice Review, 2, (2015), pp. 56-62ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor

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Politicologie t/m 2019
Journal title
Intergenerational Justice Review
Volume
vol. 2
Languages used
English (eng)
Page start
p. 56
Page end
p. 62
Subject
Distributional Conflicts in a Globalizing World: Consequences for State-Market-Civil Society ArrangementsAbstract
Quotas, including youth quotas for representative institutions, are usually evaluated from within the social justice discourse. That discourse relies on several questionable assumptions, seven of which I critically address and radically revise in this contribution from a libertarian perspective. Temporal justice then takes on an entirely different form. It becomes a theory in which responsibilities are clear and cannot be shifted onto the shoulders of the weak and innocent. I shall only briefly sketch some outlines and general implications of such a theory, arguing that it offers too little guidance for our imperfect world. While that implies more tolerance for quotas, I nevertheless propose an alternative more suited to a representative, deliberative democracy: veto rights.
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