Bernd Reiter

Legal Duty and Upper Limits (eBook, ePUB)

How to Save our Democracy and Planet from the Rich

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book proposes a radical new way of thinking about our democratic future, our ecological survival, and our ways to keep economies fair. It shows that adopting upper limits to wealth and income; replacing elections with local direct democracy and legal duty involving randomly selected citizens; and replacing welfare and redistribution policies with pre-distribution and reparations promises new solutions to political apathy, discontent, manipulation, economic inequality, unfairness, unequal opportunities, and looming ecological disaster.

Most public debates today focus on the poor, on minorities, and on immigrants when discussing the problems of our democracies. The poor, minorities and immigrants, however, are not our problem. They had no say in designing the kinds of systems that threaten our planet, our wellbeing, and our social and communal lives. They consume very little and thus have a minimal ecological footprint. It is the super-rich who threaten justice, fairness, equal opportunity, and ecological sustainability.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781785276392
• Artikelnr.: 65737596

Autorenporträt

Bernd Reiter is a political scientist and professor at Texas Tech University. He has experience as an instructor, researcher, institute director, study abroad director, and graduate program administrator.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1: Out of Crisis
Chapter 2: Direct Local Democracy and Legal Duty
Chapter 3: Predistribution and Upper Limits
Chapter 4: Reparations
Chapter 5: Conclusions and Implications
Final Considerations
Notes
References and Further Readings
Index.