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Justice below the State: Civil Society as a Site of Justice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2015

Chiara Cordelli
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Abstract

In response to growing economic and political interdependence at the international level, contemporary theories of justice have debated whether the demands of distributive justice extend beyond the nation-state. This article addresses the reverse question: whether and how the demands of justice arise below the state, at the level of civil society associations. This question becomes pressing in light of the increasing fragmentation of national governance, and the resulting institutional interdependence between political institutions and private associations. The article argues that the extent to which these associations are directly bound by egalitarian principles depends on a complex set of factors, including their structure and size, their role in the social provision of important goods, and their institutional relation with political institutions.

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , October 2016 , pp. 915 - 936
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© Cambridge University Press 2015 

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Department of Politics, University of Exeter; University Center for Human Values, Princeton University (emails: c.cordelli@exeter.ac.uk; cordelli@princeton.edu). The author wishes to thank Sandrine Blanc, Eamonn Callan, Bob Goodin, Sarah Hannan, Melissa Lane, Hugh Lazenby, Jonathan Levy, Kristi Olson, Woody Powell, Rob Reich and Debra Satz for providing helpful suggestions on how to improve this article. Thanks are also due for their comments to all the participants at the following meetings where previous drafts were presented: the Center for Ethics in Society at Stanford University, the University of Exeter, the 2014 meeting of the Ethics in Economics Network in Bad Homburg, and the Université Catholique de Louvain. Generous support from the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society is also acknowledged.

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