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In a comprehensive assessment of the penetration of Rawls's ideas in the Netherlands since 1971 five debates are discerned in which different aspects are highlighted or play a role. Some of these debates are more or less ongoing ones, some overlap with each other, and some can be pinpointed more precisely in time. In the first 15 years following the publication of A Theory of Justice, attention was focused on the distributive implications of `justice as fairness'. Next, the `liberalism-communitarianism debate' came to the fore. More recently, Kantian aspects of Rawls's theory have been discussed. A fourth, also more recent debate relates to problems of multiculturalism. Finally, in recent years, and more or less in conjunction with the debate on multiculturalism, the current situation of the Dutch welfare state has been discussed. Here we get back to the core of Rawlsian theory, its distributive implications. But now it is argued that this theory focuses too much on equality at the expense of responsibility and incentives.

In a comprehensive assessment of the penetration of Rawls's ideas in the Netherlands since 1971 five debates are discerned in which different aspects are highlighted or play a role. Some of these debates are more or less ongoing ones, some overlap with each other, & some can be pinpointed more precisely in time. In the first 15 years following the publication of A Theory of Justice, attention was focused on the distributive implications of 'justice as fairness'. Next, the 'liberalism-communitarianism debate' came to the fore. More recently, Kantian aspects of Rawls's theory have been discussed. A fourth, also more recent debate relates to problems of multiculturalism. Finally, in recent years, & more or less in conjunction with the debate on multiculturalism, the current situation of the Dutch welfare state has been discussed. Here we get back to the core of Rawlsian theory, its distributive implications. But now it is argued that his theory focuses too much on equality at the expense of responsibility & incentives. 1 Appendix. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications Ltd.]

Examines citizenship practices & institutions of the European Union (EU), drawing on a wide variety of research to compare the actual situation against the theoretical concept of liberal democratic citizenship. Rights & identity provide a minimalistic formulation of democracy & citizenship. Because citizenship is sustained by more than common political institutions, a public identity must be fostered at the level of the EU even though geography may not become obsolete. Because an important aspect of such identities -- institutional accountability -- is judged lacking, it is concluded that European citizenship has little or no contemporary validity. E. Munson