Braga Workshop: October 24, University of Minho

Call For Participation: Conference on Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-owning Democracy

Invited key-note speaker: Professor Alan Thomas
When: 24 October 2016
Where: University of Minho, Braga (Portugal)

This conference will discuss some of the central themes of Alan Thomas’s book Republic of Equals: Predistribution and Property-owning Democracy (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Possible topics for submissions include:

– the relationship between liberal and republican traditions in political thought;
– whether political philosophy can address the ‘New Inequality’ in affluent Western Societies from the 1970s to the present day;
– whether a property-owning democracy is a realistic utopian ideal;
– whether processes of globalisation constrain egalitarian projects;
– the contrast between property-owning democracy and welfare state capitalism;
– the relationship between property-owning democracy and market socialism;
– the relationship between capitalist forms of economic organization and oligarchic forms of governance.
– the relationship between predistribution and redistribution;
– the relationship between basic income and reciprocity, …

Abstracts of between 300 to 500 words on any of these topics (or related topics) should be submitted to Roberto Merrill (nrbmerrill@gmail.com) by August 25.
Notification of acceptance: September 1.

It is anticipated that presentations at the conference will be 20 minutes long with 20 minutes reserved for discussion.

NB: The book may be out by the time of the conference (the current plan is October) but Professor Alan Thomas will certainly have the page proofs with correct pagination, which will be available for participants.

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Participation fee: 20 euros
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This event is organized by the Political Theory Group of CEHUM, University of Minho (Braga),
Contact: Roberto Merrill (nrbmerrill@gmail.com)

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