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  1. The heart of justice: care ethics and political theory.Daniel Engster - 2007 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    In each of these areas, he reviews the contributions of earlier care theorists and then extends their arguments to provide a more complete description of the ...
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  2. Care Ethics, Dependency, and Vulnerability.Daniel Engster - 2019 - Ethics and Social Welfare 13 (2):100-114.
    Vulnerability has emerged as a fruitful concept in recent political discourse. Although care theorists have sometimes framed care ethics in terms of vulnerability, they have most often oriented it around dependency. This article discusses the differences between dependency and vulnerability and argues for a reconceptualization of care ethics in terms of vulnerability. By reframing care ethics around vulnerability, care theorists can not only broaden the scope of issues that care ethics can address and clarify ambiguities in the theory but also (...)
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  3. Rethinking Care Theory: The Practice of Caring and the Obligation to Care.Daniel Engster - 2005 - Hypatia 20 (3):50-74.
    Care theorists have made significant gains over the past twenty-five years in establishing caring as a viable moral and political concept. Nonetheless, the concept of caring remains underdeveloped as a basis for a moral and political philosophy, and there is no fully developed account of our moral obligation to care. This article advances thinking about caring by developing a definition of caring and a theory of obligation to care sufficient to ground a general moral and political philosophy.
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  4. Care ethics and animal welfare.Daniel Engster - 2006 - Journal of Social Philosophy 37 (4):521–536.
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    The Place of Parenting within a Liberal Theory of Justice.Daniel Engster - 2010 - Social Theory and Practice 36 (2):233-262.
    Parenting has an ambiguous place within the liberal tradition. On the one hand, liberal theorists have traditionally portrayed it as a private activity. On the other hand, they have also acknowledged the need for some public regulation of parenting in order to protect children’s interests. Some theorists have suggested that this ambiguity within liberalism can be best resolved by implementing parental licensing plans that would limit childrearing opportunities strictly to individuals who could prove their psychological, moral, and financial competency to (...)
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    Care Ethics and Political Theory.Daniel Engster & Maurice Hamington (eds.) - 2015 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    Care Ethics and Political Theory is a collection of fifteen original essays that explore the implications and applications of care to social and political policies, practices, and theories.
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  7. The social determinants of health, care ethics and just health care.Daniel Engster - 2014 - Contemporary Political Theory 13 (2):149-167.
    Political theorists generally defend the moral importance of health care by appealing to its purported importance in promoting good health and saving lives. Recent research on the social determinants of health demonstrates, however, that health care actually does relatively little to promote good health or save lives in comparison with other social and environmental factors. This article assesses the implications of the social determinants of health literature for existing theories of health care justice, and outlines a new approach that can (...)
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    Equal Opportunity and the Family: Levelling Up the Brighouse‐Swift Thesis.Daniel Engster - 2017 - Journal of Applied Philosophy 36 (1):34-49.
    Although liberal political philosophers have long recognised the tension between equal opportunity and the family, most have assumed there is little society can do to mitigate it. Brighouse and Swift argue, by contrast, that an analysis of the value of the family reveals limits on the rights of parents to benefit their children and hence points to a way to reconcile the family with equal opportunity. Their solution for resolving the tension between equal opportunity and the family, however, leads to (...)
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    Just add care and stir? The limits of mainstream liberal theory for taking on dependency care.Daniel Engster - 2022 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 25 (6):827-834.
    Asha Bhandary’s Freedom to Care represents an important challenge to the idea that care ethics and liberalism necessarily stand in tension, arguing instead that most of the commitments of care ethics can be integrated within a recognizably mainstream liberal contract theory. Although I am sympathetic to Bhandary’s project, I identify three ways in which it falls short: Bhandary’s thin moral premises fail to support decent care for all; her survival baseline principle of care does not support some important forms of (...)
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    Justice, Care, and the Welfare State.Daniel Engster - 2015 - Oxford University Press.
    This book explores contemporary welfare state reform from a moral and philosophical perspective.
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    Street Level Bureaucracy, Casework and Justice.Daniel Engster & Matt Edge - 2022 - Social Theory and Practice 48 (3):485-505.
    Most contemporary justice theories focus on the basic structure of society but pay relatively little attention to the implementation of laws and policies at the street-level. As agents of the basic structure, social caseworkers and street-level bureaucrats are, however, potentially in a unique position in the fight to deliver justice at the coalface of social inequality. Introducing a paradigm of ‘Justice as Action’, we explore how street-level bureaucrats can work with both citizen-clients and, indeed, political philosophers, to promote justice. Although (...)
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    Street Level Bureaucracy, Casework and Justice in advance.Daniel Engster & Matt Edge - forthcoming - Social Theory and Practice.
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    Justice, Care, and Welfare.Daniel Engster - 2015 - Oxford University Press UK.
    Justice, Care, and the Welfare State explores contemporary welfare state reform from a moral and philosophical perspective. It offers detailed arguments about the nature of justice in the areas of family policy, education, health care, old age pensions and long-term care, disability, and employment and poverty support. Challenging the ideal nature of much contemporary political philosophy, Engster applies political philosophy to public policy issues in order to generate concrete policy recommendations for better supporting social justice.
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