Tag: Equality

Free Download Liberty and Equality by Raymond Aron, translated by Samuel Garrett Zeitlin
English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0691226768 | True EPUB | 120 pages | 0.3 MB
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy―and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond Aron

Free Download Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality: 1920-2020 by Elisabeth Griffith
English | August 2, 2022 | ISBN: 1639361898 | 416 pages | PDF | 28 Mb
"An essential history of the struggle by both Black and white women to achieve their equal rights."-Hillary Rodham Clinton

Free Download Désirée Lim, "Immigration and Social Equality: The Ethics of Skill-Selective Immigration Policy"
English | ISBN: 0197658091 | 2023 | 264 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Skill-selective immigration policies, through which states favor the admission of highly-skilled migrants over low-skilled migrants, are a familiar component of the immigration landscape. Wealthy Western states, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia have explicitly declared their desire to attract the "best and the brightest". On the other hand, attitudes towards low-skilled migrants could not be more different. They have consistently been portrayed as dangerous and undesirable, a drain on social welfare, and economically threatening to citizens. Immigration and Social Equality argues that we ought to re-think this stance. Beginning from the widely-shared principle of equal respect for all persons, it proposes that equal respect requires the recognition of each person’s pro tanto right to social equality, regardless of their citizenship status. Even if states have the right to exclude non-citizens, they cannot do so in a way that is demeaning or subordinating to excluded persons. The right to social equality gives us a richer picture of why certain instances of immigrant selection, such as the US’s recent ban on citizens from Muslim-majority countries, are unjust. However, it also has troubling implications for skill-selective immigration policies, as they are currently practiced: the book reveals that they ought to be regarded as a form of wrongful discrimination. Drawing on the framework of social equality, Désirée Lim goes on to consider the problem of colonial injustice and how it may be reproduced by skill-selective immigration policies, as well as migratorial disobedience.

Free Download Peter Brian Barry, "George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality "
English | ISBN: 0197627404 | 2023 | 280 pages | EPUB, PDF | 962 KB + 12 MB
George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell’s work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell’s written works are of ethical significance, but he also affirmed and defended substantive ethical claims about humanism, well-being, normative ethics, free will and moral responsibility, moral psychology, decency, equality, liberty, justice, and political morality. In George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality, philosopher Peter Brian Barry avoids a narrow reading of Orwell that considers only a few of his best-known works and instead considers the entirety of Orwell’s corpus, including his fiction, journalism, essays, book reviews, diaries, and correspondence, contending that there are ethical commitments discernible throughout his work that ground some of his best-known pronouncements and positions.

Free Download Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World: Making Democracy Work in Business by Isabelle Engeli, Amy G. Mazur
English | October 31, 2022 | ISBN: 019886521X | 416 pages | MOBI | 1.94 Mb
Gender Equality and Policy Implementation in the Corporate World takes a unique approach to the issue of gender equality in corporations in the 21st century. It examines the implementation of specific policies that seek to promote women’s presence on corporate boards in 15 democracies in Western and Central Eastern Europe, North America, and Australasia through the lens of the Gender Equality Policy in Practice Approach. The thirteen empirically rich country chapters by leading country experts and two separate comparative chapter answer core questions. How were policies adopted and implemented? Did they achieve any degree of success that would allow for real and lasting equality? What were the politics of the pursuit of corporate gender equality across the 15 countries? What worked and did not work and why? What are the lessons to be drawn from these experiences?

Free Download Michael P Foran, "Equality Before the Law: Equal Dignity, Wrongful Discrimination, and the Rule of Law "
English | ISBN: 1509964940 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB, PDF | 425 KB + 3 MB

Free Download Raymond Aron, "Liberty and Equality"
English | ISBN: 0691226768 | 2023 | 120 pages | PDF | 282 KB
An invaluable reflection on the essence of liberal democracy―and an ideal introduction to the work of political philosopher Raymond Aron

Free Download Yulia Gradskova, "Institutionalizing Gender Equality: Historical and Global Perspectives"
English | ISBN: 1498516734 | 2015 | 284 pages | EPUB | 413 KB
Forty years have passed since the first UN-organized World Conference on Women in Mexico City in 1975. In that time, women’s rights, and later gender equality, have become firmly established as an important area of global politics and human rights. What shape have these processes taken in different parts of the world? How do global and internationally designed institutions adapt to local cultural, religious, political, and economic contexts? What are the problems and contradictions embedded in this process when viewed from a global perspective? What effects do grassroots, local, and national actors have on transnational institutions? In answering the questions, the book draws on historical and global perspectives, beginning in the 1960s, an important moment for internationalization during the Cold War, and looking to a global selection of case studies.

Free Download Daniel Halliday, "Inheritance of Wealth: Justice, Equality, and the Right to Bequeath"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0198803354, 0198860005 | PDF | pages: 248 | 1.2 mb
Daniel Halliday examines the moral grounding of the right to bequeath or transfer wealth. He engages with contemporary concerns about wealth inequality, class hierarchy, and taxation, while also drawing on the history of the egalitarian, utilitarian, and liberal traditions in political philosophy. He presents an egalitarian case for restricting inherited wealth, arguing that unrestricted inheritance is unjust to the extent that it enables and enhances the intergenerational replication of inequality. Here, inequality is understood in a group-based sense: the unjust effects of inheritance are principally in its tendency to concentrate certain opportunities into certain groups. This results in what Halliday describes as ‘economic segregation’. He defends a specific proposal about how to tax inherited wealth: roughly, inheritance should be taxed more heavily when it comes from old money. He rebuts some sceptical arguments against inheritance taxes, and makes suggestions about how tax schemes should be designed.

Free Download Sumaia A. Al-Kohlani, "Improving Educational Gender Equality in Religious Societies: Human Rights and Modernization Pre-Arab Spring"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 3319705350, 3030099660 | PDF | pages: 205 | 2.7 mb
In this book, Al-Kohlani examines fifty-five Muslim and non-Muslim countries from 1960 to 2010 in response to "religious theory" that associates certain religions with gender inequality and "modernization theory" which downplays the role of religion on gender inequity and associates gender inequality with socioeconomic factors. The author explores both schools of thought and posits that, on average, Muslim countries have lower educational equality in comparison to non-Muslim countries with less religious constitution. An interdisciplinary study drawn from the fields of world politics, public policy in education, and political religion, this book responds not only to debates within academia, but also to larger debates in society about the role of religion in the state, the specific challenges of the relationship of Islam and the public policies, and the relationship between constitution and gender equality.