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Defending the Welfare State

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Jeffrey Obler  and
Robert E. Goodin
Jeffrey Obler
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Robert E. Goodin
Affiliation:
University of Essex
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Abstract

An ethical defense of the welfare state may, as Robert E. Goodin has argued, adumbrate the notion that responsibility to provide for “needy strangers” flows from the same source as family responsibility. But this view of the moral responsibility for protecting vulnerable people is open to challenge. In this Controversy, Jeffrey Obler takes issue on this point, and Goodin replies.

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Controversy
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American Political Science Review , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , September 1986 , pp. 949 - 954
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1986

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