What Do Liberal Democratic States Owe the Victims of Disasters? A Rawlsian Account

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dc.contributor.authorVoice, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-30T18:10:52Z
dc.date.available2018-08-30T18:10:52Z
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.description.abstractIs there a principled way to understand what liberal democratic states owe, as a matter of justice, to the victims (survivors) of disasters? This article shows what is normatively special and distinctive about disasters and argues for the view that there are substantial duties of justice for liberal democratic states. The article rejects both a libertarian and a utilitarian approach to this question and, based on broadly Rawlsian principles, argues for a ‘political definition’ of disasters that is concerned with the restoration of citizens’ dignity and their capacities for effective citizenship.en_US
dc.identifier.citationVoice, Paul. What Do Liberal Democratic States Owe the Victims of Disasters? A Rawlsian Account. Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 4, November 2016 doi: 10.1111/japp.12119en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11209/13245
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSociety for Applied Philosophyen_US
dc.titleWhat Do Liberal Democratic States Owe the Victims of Disasters? A Rawlsian Accounten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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