A Precarious Solidarity Between Christian Democratic & Social Democratic Understandings of Solidarity Concerning Re- allocation of Refugees

The political sources of social solidarity

This essay explores the roots of redistributive social solidarity in the developed democracies. Banting and Kymlicka (this volume) define social solidarity as a worldview widespread among the populace, with civic, democratic and redistributive dimensions, whereby individuals tolerate views and practices they dislike, accept democratic decisions even if those run counter to their beliefs or inte...

Abstract: This dissertation develops a theory of post-national constitutional law, sovereignty, and solidarity that draws on conceptions of identity and time from across Anglo-American legal theory, continental political and social thought, and European jurisprudence. It attends to how post-national law

This dissertation develops a theory of post-national constitutional law, sovereignty, and solidarity that draws on conceptions of identity and time from across Anglo-American legal theory, continental political and social thought, and European jurisprudence. It attends to how post-national law might gather together texts, discourses, practices, and institutions in a shared effort to transform t...

The Global Health Crisis of Solidarity: A Response to Recent Commentaries

The Social and Solidarity Economy A Theoretical and Plural Framework

Economy is not one "natural" thing; it is always plural and socially constructed. Polanyi tought us that it was a mistake to see the economy as independent from society, as a selfregulating market. He insisted on the presence of different economic principles (market, redistribution, reciprocity) in concrete human economies. As for Mauss, he taught us that progress does not lie in seeking to rep...

Promising Practices: How cooperatives work for working women in Africa

Due to the values, including equality and equity, solidarity, social responsibility, and caring for others, upon which they are based and principles that they embody voluntary and open membership, democratic member control, member economic participation, member education, and concern for the community their very mandate places cooperatives in a unique position to ensure and promote gender equal...