Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 9

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Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy
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Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
1. Challenging Democratic Commitments: On Liberal Arguments for Instrumentalism about Democracy
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Justifying Democracy
	1.3 Second-Order Principles and Rights to Power over Others
	1.4 A Right to Instrumentally Good Decision-Making
	1.5 A Diagnosis: Individual Claims and Procedural Interests
	1.6 Conclusion
	References
2. Emotional Abuse and the Law
	2.1 The Problem
	2.2 Motivating the Question
	2.3 Why Not Criminalize?
	2.4 Defining Emotional Abuse
	2.5 Emotional Abuse as a Crime
		2.5.1 Harm and Consent
		2.5.2 Contempt
		2.5.3 Coercion
	2.6 Grading the Cases
	2.7 So Should Emotional Abuse Be Criminalized?
	Acknowledgements
	References
3. Practical Political Liberalism
	3.1 Motivations and Problems
		3.1.1 Motivations
		3.1.2 Problems
	3.2 Solution: Practical Political Liberalism
		3.2.1 Introducing Practical Liberalism
		3.2.2 Practical Political Liberalism as Distinctive
	3.3 One Payoff: Skepticism Not Required
	3.4 Two Arguments for Practical Liberalism
		3.4.1 A Simple Argument
		3.4.2 An Argument about Reasonableness
	3.5 Wrapping Up
		3.5.1 Public Deliberation
		3.5.2 Nourishing Reasonable Hope for Just Constitutional Democracy
	References
4. Beyond the Voting Debate
	4.1 Against a Duty to Vote
	4.2 Fair Play Reconsidered
	4.3 Civic Works
	4.4 Advantages and Objections
	4.5 Conclusion
	References
5. Social Experimentation in an Unjust World
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 What is Social Experimentation?
	5.3 The Case for Progressive Experimentalism
	5.4 Four Challenges to Progressive Experimentalism
	5.5 How Injustice Exacerbates All Four Problems
		5.5.1 The Information Problem
		5.5.2 The Selection Bias Problem
		5.5.3 The Uptake Problem
		5.5.4 The Risk Problem
	5.6 Implications and Conclusion
	References
6. Political Liberalism and the Dismantling of the Gendered Division of Labor
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 “Feminism,” “justice,” “state neutrality”
	6.3 The Gendered Division of Labor
	6.4 Feminism and Political Liberalism: The Difficulty
	6.5 The Equality of Opportunity Argument
	6.6 The Argument from Misogyny and Feminized Early Childcare
	6.7 The Argument from Permissible Child-Rearing
	6.8 Conclusions: Two Aims of Gender Justice
	References
7. If It’s Not Your Talent, How Come You’re Getting an Incentive?
	7.1 A Blind Spot of the Debate on Incentives
		7.1.1 The Incentives Argument
		7.1.2 Incentive Payments as Merely Expedient, Not Just
		7.1.3 Some Clarifications
		7.1.4 A Shared Assumption
		7.1.5 The Economics of Incentive Payments
	7.2 Endogenous Comparative Advantage and Its Normative Consequences
		7.2.1 Endogenous Comparative Advantage
		7.2.2 Shifting to a Dynamic Perspective on Bargaining
		7.2.3 Closing the Gap between Justice and Expediency
		7.2.4 A Rejoinder on Efficiency
	7.3 Conclusion
	References
8. (Owning) Our Bodies, (Owning) Our Selves?
	8.1 Bodily Redistribution
	8.2 Keeping the ‘Self’ in Self-Ownership
	8.3 Self as Body: The Organism View
	8.4 Self as Embodied Mind: The Brain(+) View
	8.5 Selves without Metaphysics?
	8.6 Biting Bullets
	8.7 Explaining Body Rights: Ownership and Interests
	8.8 Are There Any Natural Rights?
	8.9 Rights, Labor, and Redistribution
9. Self-Sovereignty, Drugs, and Prostitution
	9.1 Decriminalization and Legalization
	9.2 Self-Sovereignty
	9.3 Weighing Objections
	9.4 Nonlegalization and the Opportunity Principle
	References
10. Lincoln as Political Philosopher
	10.1 Natural Rights, Equality, and Self-Government
	10.2 Presidency and War
	10.3 Lincoln’s Ideal of a Just Political Economy
	10.4 Conclusion
References
Index