Stuart White Research Articles

Building a constitutional convention: Citizens and the UK's constitutional moment

Stuart White argues that the people, rather than parliament, must settle urgent questions about the basic composition of the UK's political system and the state's relationship to society. But settling on the design and remit of the required constitutional convention(s) may be a fraught process.

The Civic Minimum. On the Rights and Obligations of Citizenship, Stuart White

The Civic Minimum. On the Rights and Obligations of Citizenship, Stuart White

New Labour and the Politics of Ownership

The Political QuarterlyVolume 81, Issue s1 p. S140-S151 New Labour and the Politics of Ownership STUART WHITE, STUART WHITE Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.Search for more papers by this author STUART WHITE, STUART WHITE Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford.Search for more papers by this author First published: 01 September 2011 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2010.02226.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Volume81, Issues1September 2010Pages S140-S151 RelatedInformation

After neo‐liberalism: Republican democracy in new times

The financial crisis and resulting recession could mark the end of a political era defined by the dominance of ‘neo‐liberal’ ideas. Stuart White asks: what will the new era look like? And what will be its agenda?

A Political Philosophy of Basic Income Maintenance: Stuart White’s Civic Minimum and Fair Reciprocity

A Political Philosophy of Basic Income Maintenance: Stuart White’s Civic Minimum and Fair Reciprocity

Republicanism and human rights: a plausible combination?

I consider a small but growing corner of the global justice literature: conceptions of human rights advanced under republican lights. I outline three recent republican justificatory arguments for principles of global justice embodied in human rights: Stuart White's appeal to the republican emphasis on civic virtue, and the appeals to a republican conception of liberty advanced by Philip Pettit and James Bohman. I argue that in all three accounts, too little attention is paid to constraints on the reasons that can be offered to a diverse domain of agents. I sketch an outline of the criteria plausible justificatory reasons must contain. In the appeal to virtue, no such reasons are forthcoming. In the appeal to liberty, such reasons may be forthcoming if republicans give up the claim that human rights are justified by appeal to ‘liberty’ itself. I conclude that a suitably modified appeal to the republican conception of liberty may be plausible.

Book Reviews

Book Reviewed in this issues. Van Diemen's Land. By James Boyce Mapping Colonial Conquest: Australia and Southern Africa. Edited by Norman Etherington Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution. By Raelene Frances Colonial Ambition: Foundations of Australian Democracy. By Peter Cochrane Lucy Osburn, a Lady Displaced: Florence Nightingale's Envoy to Australia. By Judith Godden Australia's Muslim Cameleers: Pioneers of the Inland 1860‐1930. By Philip Jones and Anna Kenny Bishop of Magnetic Power: James Moorhouse in Melbourne, 1876‐1886. By Moma Sturrock Summer in the Hills: The Nineteenth‐Century Mountain Resort in Australia. By Andrea Inglis Anzacs and Ireland. By Jeff Kildea Designing Australia's Cities: Culture, Commerce and the City Beautiful 1900‐1930. By Robert Freestone From the Hustings to Harbour Views: Electoral Institutions in New South Wales, 1856‐2006. By Marian Simms Jean Beadle: A Life of Labor Activism. By Bobbie Oliver The Coalminers of Queensland: A Narrative History of the Queensland Colliery Employees Union. Volume Two: The Pete Thomas Essays. By Pete Thomas and Greg Mallory The Little History of Australian Unionism. By Sean Scalmer The Voice of the Thunderer: Journalism of H.G. Kippax. Selected and introduced by Harry Heseltine Sir Ronald Wilson: A Matter of Conscience. By Antonio Buti Power without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard. By Ann Tiernan John Winston Howard: The Biography. By Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen History's Children: History Wars in the Classroom. By Anna Clark John Grote, Cambridge University and the Development of Victorian Thought. By John R. Gibbins A.J.P. Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe. By Chris Wrigley Deutsche, Juden, Völkermord. Der Holocaust als Geschichte und Gegenwart. Edited by Jürgen Matthäus and Klaus‐Michael Mallmann Prague in Black. Nazi Rule and Czech Nationalism. By Chad Bryant Prague in Danger. By Peter Demetz Why is there No Labor Party in the United States? By Robin Archer Anti‐Americanism: History, Causes, Themes, 4 volumes. Edited by Brendon O'Connor Equality. By Stuart White The Political Communication Reader. Edited by Ralph Negrine and James Stanyer The Right Road to Radical Freedom. By Tibor Machan Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. By John Harris

Review of Will Paxton, Stuart White and Dominic Maxwell, The Citizen's Stake. Exploring the Future of Universal Asset Policies

Review of Will Paxton, Stuart White and Dominic Maxwell, The Citizen's Stake. Exploring the Future of Universal Asset Policies

Civic Labour or Doulia? Care, Reciprocity and Welfare

This article discusses the grounds on which those who provide informal social care for dependent adults and children can be held to warrant public support, and what obligations they should accept in return. It outlines two interpretations of the rights and responsibilities of such care workers: Stuart White's notion of care as civic labour and Eva Feder Kittay's principle of doulia. It shows that these interpretations reflect different understandings of the self and of reciprocity. The conclusion is that Kittay's writings better reflect the relationality of care, but that it is still possible to justify some forms of welfare conditionality.

Equality: A Continuing Dialogue

We reply to discussions of Equality: From Theory to Action by Harry Brighouse, Joanne Conaghan, Cillian McBride and Stuart White. We find many of their points helpful and treat them as a useful contribution to a continuing dialogue on egalitarianism.

Equality

Stuart White has written a very clear and accessible introduction to debates about equality in contemporary mainstream Anglophone political theory. All of the leading positions are set out and discussed, so readers of this book will get a very good idea of the kinds of discussion that now dominate the field. They will also get a strong sense of the style of contemporary analytic political theory – the emphasis on argument and counter-argument, the use of hypothetical examples, of stylised categories, of representative individuals, of abstraction and of relevant empirical research. It is a remarkable feat that White has managed to cover such an extensive literature in such a condensed format, and to fit it all into what reads as a coherent overall line of argument. One of the related virtues of the book is that it includes a discussion of political equality and democracy under the umbrella of equality,...

Why do Liberal Democrats oppose the Child Trust Fund?

The Liberal Democrats have long argued for the abolition of the Child Trust Fund – Labour's prize initiative. Here, political philosopher Stuart White argues that their opposition is not only misplaced, but contradicts their own values and historical commitments.

Review of Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White, The Ethics of Stakeholding

Review of Keith Dowding, Jurgen De Wispelaere, and Stuart White, The Ethics of Stakeholding

Review of Stuart White, The Civic Minimum: On the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship

Review of Stuart White, The Civic Minimum: On the Rights and Obligations of Economic Citizenship

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Perioperative Medicine.

Unconditional welfare benefits and the principle of reciprocity

Stuart White and others claim that providing welfare benefits to citizens who do not, and are not willing to, work breaches the principle of reciprocity. This, they argue, justifies placing a minimum work requirement on welfare recipients. This article seeks to rebut their claim. It begins by rejecting the attempt to ground the work requirement on a civic obligation to work. The article then explores the principle of reciprocity, and argues that the practice of reciprocity depends on the particular conception of distributive justice adopted. An examination of different interpretations of egalitarian justice and their corresponding patterns of reciprocity demonstrates that unconditional welfare benefits are compatible with, and sometimes even warranted by, the principle of reciprocity. Thus, imposing a work requirement on welfare recipients is by no means a mandate of reciprocity.

A progressive politics of responsibility What would it look like?

Public Policy ResearchVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 7-14 A progressive politics of responsibility What would it look like? Stuart White, Stuart White Stuart White is a Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of The Civic Minimum:on the rights and obligations of economic citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2003).Search for more papers by this author Stuart White, Stuart White Stuart White is a Fellow in Politics at Jesus College, Oxford, where he teaches political theory. He is the author of The Civic Minimum:on the rights and obligations of economic citizenship (Oxford University Press, 2003).Search for more papers by this author First published: 05 April 2005 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-540X.2005.00375.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume12, Issue1March 2005Pages 7-14 RelatedInformation

The fourth attempt to construct a politics of welfare obligations

English Since the 1980s there have been three influential attempts to ground citizenship on the principles of duty, obligation and responsibility: conservative, communitarian and Third Way. Each of these is reviewed in the article. The principal task of this article, however, is to examine the emergence of a fourth attempt, which, by relating duty to equality through the principle of reciprocity, represents a synthesis of traditional social democracy with the new politics of obligation. Our focus will be on The civic minimum by Stuart White, since this is arguably the most cogent expression of dutybased egalitarianism to have emerged in recent years.

What's Wrong with Workfare?

Journal of Applied PhilosophyVolume 21, Issue 3 p. 271-284 What's Wrong with Workfare? Stuart White, Stuart WhiteSearch for more papers by this author Stuart White, Stuart WhiteSearch for more papers by this author First published: 17 November 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0264-3758.2004.00281.xCitations: 14Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume21, Issue3December 2004Pages 271-284 RelatedInformation

Training, Perfectionism and Fairness

abstract This paper considers the question of whether unemployed individuals have a duty of fairness to accept retraining as a condition of receiving unemployment benefit. It is argued, in response to Stuart White, that, although there are some circumstances where individuals do have such a moral duty, for an egalitarian it is never the case that there is sufficient reason for enforcing such a duty by means of the law.