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	Egalitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Egalitarianism is the moral doctrine that equality ought to prevail throughout society.
		Economic egalitarianism, popular with liberals throughout much of the 20th Century, has given way to a concern not that everyone be strictly equal in material possession, but rather that everyone be equal in having enough material goods to successfully fulfill his or her native human capacities.
		Libertarianism can be understood as radical political egalitarianism, according to which everyone is equal (or nearly equal) in coercive political power, because no one has any (or those who have it have little and are strictly limited in their use of it).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egalitarianism (724 words)

	Egalitarianism
		Egalitarianism is a protean doctrine, because there are several different types of equality, or ways in which people might be treated the same, that might be thought desirable.
		In modern democratic societies, the term "egalitarian" is often used to refer to a position that favors, for any of a wide array of reasons, a greater degree of equality of income and wealth across persons than currently exists.
		Interpreting Karl Marx as an egalitarian normative theorist is a tricky undertaking, however, in view of the fact that he tends to eschew explicit theorizing on moral principles and to regard assertions of moral principles as so much ideological dust thrust in the eyes of the workers by defenders of capitalism.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/egalitarianism (12667 words)

	egalitarianism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Egalitarianism is the moral doctrine that equality ought to prevail among some group along some dimension.
		Originally this statement excluded women, slaves and other minority groups, but over time this kind of egalitarianism has won wide adherence and is a core component of liberal, democratic polities.
		Economic egalitarianism, popular on the Left throughout much of the 20th Century, has given way to a concern not that everyone be strictly equal in material possession, but rather that everyone be equal in having enough material goods to successfully fulfill his or her native human capacities.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Egalitarianism.html (697 words)

	Democratic egalitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Democratic egalitarianism maintains that all citizens are created equal before the law.
		Specifically, this philosophy combines the equal political rights of egalitarianism with the universal franchise of democracy.
		Thus, canon law, star chambers, and aristocracy are alike forbidden, and the testimony of all persons is counted with the same weight.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Democratic_egalitarianism (122 words)

	What Is the Point of Equality?
		Recent egalitarian writing has come to be dominated by the view that the fundamental aim of equality is to compensate people for undeserved bad luck--being born with poor native endowments, bad parents, and disagreeable personalities, suffering from accidents and illness, and so forth.
		Democratic equality refuses to publicly endorse the demeaning private judgments of appearance which are the basis of such claims to compensation.
		Democratic equality, in focusing on equality as a social relationship, rather than simply as a pattern of distribution, at least enables us to see that we have a choice between redistributing material resources and changing other aspects of society to meet the demands of equality.
	www.forum2.org /mellon/lj/anderson.html (20392 words)

	b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal
		They do not mount an argument against egalitarianism (although at times their railing against liberalism may be taken as such); rather, they argue that egalitarianism has not been adequately practiced.
		Their argument supports the further elaboration of egalitarianism, and judges behaviour that does not meet egalitarian standards, be the breaches by agents in or representing Australia (the book’s focus), Asia or anywhere else.
		Egalitarianism here is seen to demand that all forms of being in the world be given a priori equal status (at least for the purposes of initial negotiation).
	www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au /vol3no3_2004/langlois_rights.htm (3032 words)

	MPIfG Working Paper 97/2, Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers: Can Egalitarianism Survive Internationalization?
		Our own, stated schematically, is that current difficulties in egalitarian democratic practice owe less to changes in human aspiration or philosophy than to what may be broadly classed as "organizational" problems - specifically, to a mismatch between the characteristic organizing and governance practices of social democracy and changed material conditions within which those practices operate.
		The associative democratic idea is to focus that effort of rebuilding and reconstruction on associations intermediate between state and market, and deliberative arenas built around such associations.
		Still, it might be said that associative democracy is an improbable direction for egalitarian strategy because the role of organized groups in problem-solving would tie political identities to those groups rather than to the position of equal citizen.
	www.mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de /pu/workpap/wp97-2/wp97-2.html (6539 words)

	AEM-Public Contract
		Egalitarianism in any constitutional election, the government will be obligated to conduct constitutional elections again within 20 years.
		Egalitarianism in any constitutional election, the government will be obligated to conduct constitutional elections again within 25 years.
		Should a government, a Leader of Government, a Head of State, or anybody else wish to make amendments to the Egalitarian constitution in the future (including the re-introduction of the contemporary democratic system), this will require a separate election and 70% of the vote to be passed.
	www.aem.org.au /contract.htm (793 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The New Egalitarianism and the Old (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		...Thus, traditional egalitarians did not oppose the situation in which the rich could go to their own universities, provided that they paid enough in taxes to support adequate universities for others, and didn't steal all the best people away...
		...To be an egalitarian is to prefer the former ambience to the latter...
		...But it is with the egalitarians who see equality not as a first principle but as a member of a family of principles, and not as a truth brought down from on high but as a complaint expressed from below...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V56I3P56-1.htm (6772 words)

	Innocents Abroad: 09/29/2002 - 10/05/2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The New Jersey Democrats, by contrast, have convinced themselves that they are doing the citizens of New Jersey a service by inventing a new right of "a full and fair ballot choice" in their effort to replace their caporegime, Robert Torricelli, in the upcoming US Senate contest.
		Of course the Democrats are acting out of self-interest, but it is always revealing to examine the arguments or reasons that human beings put forth to defend themselves and their actions; the word reveals at least as much as the deed.
		The Democrats' attempt to invent a right of "full and fair ballot choice" is one of the unfortunate legacies of New Deal Progressivism which was a rights-based and rights-fabricating program that utilized the courts to force its policies through while by-passing the Constitutional process.
	innocentsabroad.blogspot.com /2002_09_29_innocentsabroad_archive.html (4627 words)

	US Political Thought, Notes on Samuel P. Huntington
		It was a decade of democratic surge and of the reassertion of democratic egalitarianism” (59-60).1
		Restriction of military expenditures and action as a result of the democratic surge: “a government which lacks authority and which is committed to substantial domestic programs will have little ability, short of a cataclysmic crisis, to impose on its people the sacrifices which may be necessary to deal with foreign policy problems and defense” (105).
		He goes on to say that democratization in the sixties often “only frustrate[d] the purposes of those institutions [to which it was applied]”--a “more democratic university is not likely to be a better university” (114).
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jboland/hntngton.html (2601 words)

	Sample Chapter for Lape, S.: Reproducing Athens: Menander’s Comedy, Democratic Culture, and the Hellenistic City.
		In part, this is because comedy's reproduction of democratic culture against various Hellenistic outsiders allows for a relaxation of the internal status boundaries that traditionally secured the citizen's place in the intrapolis hierarchy (i.e., the boundaries between free persons and slaves, men and women, and citizens and foreigners).
		In addition, the reproduction of democratic civic ideologies in the comic marriage plot makes all too clear what the official ideology normally elides: the contradictions and arbitrary exclusions of women, foreigners, and slaves on which the democratic political order was based.
		According to the Athenian orator Aeschines, democratic citizens must have free birth on both their mother's and father's sides (which is another way of saying that they must be born according to the laws) to ensure their support for democratic law and to prevent antidemocratic behavior (Aes.
	www.pupress.princeton.edu /chapters/s7679.html (11648 words)

	BEARS: ANDERSON REPLIES
		Arneson, Christiano, and Sobel offer a range of criticisms of democratic equality, ranging from (1) matters of fundamental moral principle to (2) challenges that require clarification on my part of the implications of democratic equality.
		It is inconsistent for luck egalitarians to refuse to compensate for this difference, since they agree that all differences due to brute luck are compensable.
		Perhaps there might be, as Christiano suggests, some tendency toward convergence between the views of luck egalitarianism and democratic equality. At least we can see, in this softening of luck egalitarian positions, a potential for allowing democratic equality to step in and specify some of the parameters left undetermined in the general luck egalitarian position.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Philosophy/bears/9912ande.html (373 words)

	BEARS: SOBEL ON ANDERSON
		Anderson's offers a wonderful array of kinds of cases in which she argues that luck egalitarians get the wrong answer, but in almost all of the cases the fundamental failure of luck egalitarianism turns out to be that its principles express a lack of respect for citizens.
		Democratic equality of the form favored by Anderson does not concern itself with rectifying cosmic luck but instead takes the object of justice to be to create social institutions which allow each the permanent capacity to live as equal citizens.
		Anderson's case against paternalism and state intrusiveness, together with her view that what we owe to each other is the provision of relevant capacities rather than functionings, seems to point to state provision of such capacities in the form of cash rather than food stamps and wheelchairs.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Philosophy/bears/9904sobe.html (1494 words)

	AEM
		And because I believe such things, and because I also believe that Egalitarianism is achievable and maintainable, if the society is set up appropriately (without needing to imply a connection to communism, even when there are some similarities to the way in which communist societies have been set up).
		I however, view the need to change to Egalitarianism from a concerned perspective – concern for future generations, the sustainability of the culture, life within the culture, the environment, the ecology, economic waste, over-consumption of non-renewable resources, institutionalised and invalid forms of domination and abuse, and the extremely long list of social problems.
		I say that it shouldn’t matter whether or not we are going to be economically better off by changing to Egalitarianism, just as it shouldn’t matter whether or not a nation is going to be economically better off by not restricting access to primary school education or by stopping slavery.
	www.aem.org.au /communism.htm (2271 words)

	Worcester
		Britain was negotiating a middle path between capitalism and socialism, one that would harness market forces to the dictates of a redistributive social democratic egalitarianism.
		In addition, the quasi-libertarian dimension of his thinking may be too easily overlooked, such as his defence of youth subcultures,25 his sympathy for the consumer culture, and his 'unabashed insistence on the right to private enjoyment'.
		While the dominant tone of the book is social democratic, in that it espouses a gradualist approach to economic and social policy in the interests of enhancing the condition of the broad masses of people, there is also a more radical inflection in the discussions about social equality and personal liberty.
	www.psa.ac.uk /publications/psd/1997/worcester.htm (5649 words)

	Democratic egalitarianism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Democratic egalitarianism -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Specifically, this philosophy combines the equal political rights of (The doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality) egalitarianism with the universal franchise of (A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them) democracy.
		Thus, (The body of codified laws governing the affairs of a Christian church) canon law, (A former English court that became notorious for its arbitrary methods and severe punishments) star chambers, and (A privileged class holding hereditary titles) aristocracy are alike forbidden, and the testimony of all persons is counted with the same weight.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/democratic_egalitarianism.htm (161 words)

	In Medias Res: What Amy Sullivan Gets Wrong
		I've made it clear how much I hope for some kind of rapprochement between the Democratic party's egalitarianism and the populist concern of many religious conservatives, but Amy's one of the few activists who have really been involved in trying to make it happen.
		Of course, one can reject all this, sign up with Howard Dean's vision for the Democratic party, and condemn both Amy's approach and my critique as characterized by an unwillingness to defend liberalism as it is. And you'd be correct, in my case.
		You're right, I think, that Mormons aren't going to flock to the Democratic party with a few simple strategic adjustments, but I also think that you're overestimating the political analysis skills of most members of the LDS church (or of most people in general).
	inmedias.blogspot.com /2005/01/what-amy-sullivan-gets-wrong.html (1645 words)

	Fascism definition, origins, characteristics, fascist state, corporative state
		The growth of democratic ideology and popular participation in politics in the 19th cent.
		In postwar West Germany, neofascism appeared in the form of the temporary growth of the nationalistic National Democratic party in the mid-1960s.
		Following German reunification, neo-Nazi groups in the country gained increased prominence, with new members being drawn to the organization as a result of social upheaval and economic dislocation, and the nation experienced an increase in related violence, especially attacks on immigrants and foreigners.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Fascism/Fascism_def_char_hx.html (1464 words)

	Organized Teachers’ Influence on Education Reform
		The three interests are linked to three competing ideologies in public education: liberal meritocracy, conservative elitism, and democratic egalitarianism.
		There is a societal tolerance for union engagement in philosophical debate and social action such that, in the absence of a real left-wing party in provincial politics, the CEQ exerts extra-parliamentary pressure for social democratic causes.
		The collaboration characteristic of relations provincially among the education partners is not consistently replicated at the local level between employing boards of education and teachers.
	www.aare.edu.au /01pap/hum01356.htm (6412 words)

	ataxingmatter
		Under the principle of democratic egalitarianism that I have espoused in this blog, this limitation on the tax benefit from home mortgages is a reasonable one.
		It is a worthy debate that engages many of the issues important for the survival of democratic egalitarianism.
		If the out-of-power Democrats continue to allow the right to frame the arguments, they will never break through the presuppositions--biases, if you will, towards particular approaches to tax policy-- that have been built into the framing.
	ataxingmatter.blogs.com /tax (7330 words)

	The Five Points of Evanjellyfish Christianity
		They are generally very surprised to learn that Jesus would tell a church in Revelation 2:20, “Nevertheless, I have against you that you tolerate that woman Jezebel….” Evanjellyfish Christianity is primarily informed by a belief in the innate goodness of man and the ideals of democratic egalitarianism rather than and contrary to Scripture.
		Evanjellyfish Christians make much use of Scripture, but it is the ideals of democratic egalitarianism that are the authoritative basis of their Scriptural interpretation.
		Their favorite verses of the Bible are those that are good for comfort and can be interpreted out of context to support a general ethic of syrupy and emotional tolerance selectively separated from any hard truths, ethical considerations, and common sense.
	www.daveblackonline.com /five_points_of_evanjellyfish_chr.htm (1761 words)

	End of History? -- Francis Fukuyama's Thesis Won't Fly
		Fukuyama's optimism about democratic capitalism is tempered only by his Nietzschean worries about the blandness of life in this order.
		Of course, so long as lesser powers remain nondemocratic, democratic countries will be involved in wars with them.
		Yet conservative and neoliberal elites in capitalist democratic establishments seek and need such legitimacy to carry on everyday geopolitical and geo- economic tasks.
	www.nathannewman.org /EDIN/.mags/.cross/.42/.42art/.fukuyam.html (3339 words)

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		Much of her work on the relationship between American values and the institution of marriage has focused on Alexis de Tocqueville's observations about the unique relationship between marriage and American democracy in the early 19th century.
		Tocqueville saw the hierarchical nature of Americans' marriages as necessary checks on the potential disorderliness of democratic egalitarianism.
		Her lecture is co-sponsored by the History/Politics class on Alexis de Tocqueville.
	www.willamette.edu /cal/event.cgi/4183 (132 words)

	Ben Hill
		The system combines the underlying democratic process inherent in email chain conversations with a remapping of the voting process to a calendar GUI interface.
		The result is increased speed and efficiency of voting on meeting times to the critical level necessary for mass adoption among groups of users currently using incompatible calendaring solutions.
		We hypothesize that democratic participation increases, both online and face-to-face, in proportion to the speed and ability with which a participant can interact with the online system.
	www.online-deliberation.net /conf2005/viewabstract.php?id=31 (404 words)

	Populist commentator lambastes Bush, Kerry - Columbia Missourian
		He also delivered a scathing indictment of Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry, whom he portrayed as elitist, aloof and out of touch with “working Americans.”
		He failed to tap into this class divide, this trove of democratic egalitarianism values as previous Democratic presidential aspirants have.”
		Although Hightower spent a considerable portion of his speech criticizing the perceived shortcomings of both presidential candidates, he also tackled the question of the role of the “morality vote” in last Tuesday’s presidential election.
	www.columbiamissourian.com /news/print.php?ID=10539 (439 words)

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