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Fair-Play Obligations and Distributive Injustice

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  • Göran Duus-Otterström, University of Gothenburg

This article investigates the relationship between distributive injustice and political obligation within the confines of the fair-play theory of political obligation. More specifically, it asks how the distribution of benefits and burdens of a cooperative scheme affects people’s fair-play obligations to that scheme. It argues that neither a sufficiency-based nor a proportionality-based approach is capable of answering that question singlehandedly. However, the two approaches can be combined in a plausible way. Noting that some of the duties that go into our fair-play obligations are ‘gradual’ and others are ‘non-gradual’, the article argues that the sufficiency-based approach explains non-gradual duties such as the duty to obey the law, and that the proportionality-based approach explains gradual duties like political participation and civic responsibility. Thus, the article contends that the fair-play theory should be extended beyond the question of legal compliance and be applied to the duties of good citizenship more generally.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftEuropean Journal of Political Theory
Vol/bind20
Nummer2
Sider (fra-til)167-186
Antal sider20
ISSN1474-8851
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StatusUdgivet - apr. 2021

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