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Part of the acclaimed Politics and Society series, Population and Political Theory brings together leading thinkers in the fields of philosophy, political science, economics, and social policy to address issues at the convergence of population policy and political theory.
* Offers a single-volume, systematic overview of philosophical issues relating to population
* Represents a unique merging of discussions of population policy with political theory
* Broad in scope, the diverse discussions will appeal to political philosophers, population specialists, and public policy makers
List of contents
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Population and Political Theory
1. Population and Ethics: Expanding the Moral Space
2. Should We Value Population?
3. Regarding Optimum Population
4. On Doing the Best for Our Children
5. Shaping Future Children: Parental Rights and Societal Interest
6. On Future Generations' Future Rights
7. Justice between Adjacent Generations: Further Thoughts
8. Generations at War or Sustainable Social Policy in Ageing Societies?
9. Dependency, Difference, and the Global Ethic of Longterm Care
10. Live-in Domestics, Seasonal Workers, and Others Hard to Locate on the Map of Democracy
11. Immigrants, Nations, and Citizenship
12. Justice in Migration: A Closed Borders Utopia?
13. The Ethics of Refugee Policy
Index
About the author
James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he teaches Communication and Political Science and Directs the Center for Deliberative Democracy. His Deliberative Polling process has been conducted in countries ranging from China and Bulgaria to Denmark, Britain, Australia, Italy, Hungary, and the US. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. He has also been Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds both a PhD in Political Science from Yale and a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge.
Robert E. Goodin is Distinguished Professor of Social & Political Theory and Philosophy in the Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University, having previously taught in the Government Department at the University of Essex. He is a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, founding editor of The Journal of Political Philosophy and general editor of the ten-volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science. His work straddles democratic theory, empirical welfare-state studies and theoretical reflections on public policy.
Summary
Population and Political Theory brings together current thinking on issues at the intersection of population policy and political theory. Topics explored include population size, immigration and refugees, intergenerational justice, population characteristics and shaping children, ageing, and caring labour.
Report
"This volume will prove to be rewarding reading for all graduate students and scholars in social policy, demography, ethics and political theory who are interested in population issues." ( Social Policy & Administration , 1 February 2013)
"As a result the book is both accessible to the uninitiated and valuable to the initiated. Overall, it represents an excellent resource for political philosophers, population theorists and policy makers." ( Political Studies Review , 10 March 2012)
