La justicia social y los cuatro mundos del capitalismo del bienestar

In: Revista española de ciencia política, Heft 8, S. 9-45

Abstract

This essay relates the normative discussion about social justice in political philosophy to empirical results from social policy analysis, thus linking two lines of discussions that have hitherto run mostly separate. The argument will be developed by answering four questions. The normative question: what regulative ideas of social justice does the debate about justice in political philosophy supply? The action-theoretical question: what criteria for judgment & political preferences can be found for a justice-oriented politics? The empirical question: how can the "three worlds of welfare capitalism" be judged in light of these hierarchically ordered criteria of justice? And finally the institutional question: which logic should underpin a reform of the welfare state, if this reform is to be both socially just & at the same time realistically achievable. Tables, References. Adapted from the source document.