Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
Difference without Domination: Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
edited by Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan
University of Chicago Press, 2020 Paper: 978-0-226-68122-1 | eISBN: 978-0-226-68136-8 | Cloth: 978-0-226-68119-1 Library of Congress Classification JC575.D49 2020 Dewey Decimal Classification 320.011
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts the dilemma head-on, exploring new ways to combat current social hierarchies of domination.
Using examples from the United States, India, Germany, and Cameroon, the contributors offer paradigm-changing approaches to the concepts of justice, identity, and social groups while also taking a fresh look at the idea that the demographic make-up of institutions should mirror the make-up of a populace as a whole. After laying out the conceptual framework, the volume turns to a number of provocative topics, among them the pernicious tenacity of implicit bias, the logical contradictions inherent to the idea of universal human dignity, and the paradoxes and problems surrounding affirmative action. A stimulating blend of empirical and interpretive analyses, Difference without Domination urges us to reconsider the idea of representation and to challenge what it means to measure equality and inequality.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University Professor and director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. The recipient of a MacArthur fellowship, she is the author or coeditor of many books, including Education and Equality, From Voice to Influence: Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age, and Education, Justice, and Democracy, all published by the University of Chicago Press. Rohini Somanathan is professor of economics at the Delhi School of Economics.
REVIEWS
“Difference without Domination is an ambitious volume that aims to reconfigure the discourses on democracy, egalitarianism, and justice in an increasingly diverse world. This brilliant volume has the potential to transform profoundly how we comprehend democracy and difference, and it promises visions of egalitarian futures devoid of domination.”
— Neil Roberts, Williams College
“Difference without Domination is a unique contribution to an emerging literature on how ideas about democracy affect, and are affected by, concepts and practices pertaining to equality, egalitarianism, and domination. The contributors range from the disciplines of history, philosophy, economics, to political science, psychology, and brain sciences, forging encounters and dialogue across boundaries to assess the aforementioned concepts and their capacity to interrogate domination as lived experience. Allen and Somanathan have performed a service in encouraging and framing what are often—in academic and in daily life—difficult conversations.”
— Michael G. Hanchard, University of Pennsylvania
"Eleven papers explore how social diversity, especially race, should inform thinking about both justice and democracy, providing the bases for new and complementary paradigms for both normative and positive engagements with issues of injustice and inequality. Papers discuss how difference without domination should replace, or at least supplement, the Rawlsian difference principle in the social and economic realms."
— Journal of Economic Literature
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan
Part I Difference without Domination
1 * A New Theory of Justice: Difference without Domination Danielle Allen
2 * Race, Domination, and Republicanism Melvin Rogers
Part II Relations before Transactions: New Approaches to Inequality, Justice, and Dignity
3 * Crime and Punishment in a Divided Society Rajiv Sethi
4 * The Psychology of Implicit Intergroup Bias and the Prospect of Change Calvin Lai and Mahzarin Banaji
5 * Human Dignity and Modern Democracies Ajume Wingo
6 * Relations before Transactions: A Personal Plea Glenn Loury
Part III The Limits of Mirroring: New Approaches to Representation, Measurement, and Membership
7 * Overrepresentation: Asian Americans and the Conundrums of Statistical Mirroring Ellen D. Wu
8 * Second-Order Diversity: An Exploration of Decentralization’s Egalitarian Possibilities Heather Gerken
9 * Contributing to a Society of Equals: Affirmative Action beyond the “Distributive Paradigm” Urs Lindner
10 * The Measurement and Mismeasurement of Social Difference Rohini Somanathan
11 * Immigration, Membership, and Justice: On the Right to Bring Others into the Polity Claudio López-Guerra
Conclusion: Redefining Integration Danielle Allen and Rohini Somanathan
Index
Author Bios
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