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    The neo-liberal account of democracy is insufficiently ju... — Carmelics
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    The neo-liberal account of democracy is insufficiently justified in its claim that citizens' aspirations for social justice cannot be achieved by the modern state.

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    • 1.Amartya Sen's capabilities approach shows that states have successfully expanded substantive freedoms through public health, education, and welfare programs.
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    • 2.Empirical success of Scandinavian social democracies in achieving high equality and well-being directly contradicts the neo-liberal claim of state incapacity.
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    • 3.A claim asserted without adequate empirical or theoretical grounding fails basic standards of philosophical justification, as Habermas's discourse ethics requires.
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    • 1.Rawls's theory of justice demonstrates that redistributive institutions can align market outcomes with principles of fairness citizens would rationally endorse.
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    • 2.If a principled framework exists under which states can achieve social justice, the neo-liberal claim that it is impossible lacks sufficient justification.
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    • 1.The neo-liberal account contends that citizens' aspirations for social justice and the common good cannot be achieved by the modern state.
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    But the neo-liberal account of democracy must answer to two large worries. First, citizens in modern societies have more ambitious conceptions of social justice and the common good than are realizable by the minimal state. The neo-liberal account thus implies a very serious curtailment of democracy of its own. More evidence is needed to support the contention that these aspirations cannot be achieved by the modern state. Second, the neo-liberal approach ignores the problem of large private conce
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