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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on March 4, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(2):256-259; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn005
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Equality

John Baker

Equality Studies Centre, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland

email: John.Baker@ucd.ie

Stuart White, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2007, x + 197 pp., ISBN 0 7456 2774 9 (pb), £14.99. (Key Concepts in the Social Sciences series)

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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 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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