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Capabilities and Justice: Does personal responsibility for capabilities matter?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
Bad news for satisfied tenants: On the social construction of social rented housing as dreadful enclosures
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
As long as the social rented sector - which comprised 6% of the housing stock - housed traditional families and the allocation procedures were rather loose, little commotion came about. A combination of changes in family ...
Paying for Higher Education: Are Top-Up Fees Fair?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
This paper considers four institutional models for funding higher education in the light of principles of fairness and meritocracy, with particular reference to the debate in the UK over ‘top-up fees’. It concludes that, ...
What can the Stakeholder Theory Learn from Enron?
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
Roughly speaking, Enron has done for reflection on corporate governance what AIDS did for research on the immune system. So far, however, virtually all of this reflection on and subsequent reform of governance has come ...
Two approaches to stakeholder identification
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
The paper presents two fundamentally different ways to approach the identification of stakeholders. The first is the relationship approach. According to this approach, special obligations arise between individuals or groups ...
On Responsibility-Sensitive Egalitarian Ethics
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
A Moral Stakeholder Theory of the Firm
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
To be a coherent and genuinely alternative conception to the shareholder model, any moral stakeholder theory must meet the following conditions: (1) It must be an ethical theory; (2) It must identify a limited group as ...
Social Opportunities and Individual Responsibility: The Capability Approach and the Third Way
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
The fashionable widespreading of Sen’s ideas coincides with a new mood in the shaping of public policies in affluent societies. In Europe indeed, an “opportunity”-based approach to social security has been implemented ...
L’accès gratuit à l’eau potable bénéficie-t-il nécessairement au plus défavorisé ? Une discussion critique à l’aune du cas de la Flandre
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
This article discusses the 1997 Flemish reform in the domestic water sector (Belgium). It abolished a previously existing social correction of the wastewater charge. Instead, a tax exemption for some disadvantaged categories ...
‘Bringing the Middle Classes Back In’ An Egalitarian Case for (Truly) Universal Public Services
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
Some egalitarians argue against public services that are free for all, on the grounds that free access appears to primarily benefit the middle classes. I advocate, instead, the inclusion of the middle classes in public ...