Social Justice and Public Policy: Seeking Fairness in Diverse Societies

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Craig, Gary, Burchardt, Tania, David Gordon
Policy Press, Jun 18, 2008 - Political Science - 284 pages
Social justice is a contested term, incorporated into the language of widely differing political positions. Those on the left argue that it requires intervention from the state to ensure equality, at least of opportunity; those on the right believe that it can be underpinned by the economics of the market place with little or no state intervention. To date, political philosophers have made relatively few serious attempts to explain how a theory of social justice translates into public policy. This important book, drawing on international experience and a distinguished panel of political philosophers and social scientists, addresses what the meaning of social justice is, and how it translates into the everyday concerns of public and social policy, in the context of both multiculturalism and globalisation.

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a view from political
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a social policy
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three Multiculturalism social justice and the welfare state
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Gary Craig is a Visiting Professor at the Law School, Newcastle University and at the University of York. He previously worked as a community development activist. He has researched and published widely in the fields of 'poverty, 'race' and ethnicity and modern slavery; He co-convenes the national network Modern Slavery Research Consortium. David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristolat the University of Bristol.

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