Liberal global justice and social science

Nili, Shmuel

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“…6 Call this no effect . In the context of a concern with poverty, Shmuel Nili has leant on such a claim, arguing that ‘there is no evidence suggesting that individuals’ prospects are positively correlated with the level of their country’s natural resource endowments’ (Nili, 2016a: 140), and that resource shares do not influence growth even indirectly (Nili, 2016a: 142). But that is too sweeping: institutionalist scholars do not deny that resource wealth sometimes converts into greater economic growth.…”

Section: Against Indifferencementioning

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Domestic institutions, growth and global justice

Armstrong

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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According to one prominent theory of development, a country’s wealth is primarily explained by the quality of its institutions. Leaning on that view, several political theorists have defended two normative conclusions. The first is that we have no reason for concern, from the point of view of justice, if some countries have greater natural resource endowments than others. The second is that proposals for redistribution across borders are likely to be superfluous. Advocates of global redistribution have not yet grappled with these momentous arguments, or shown whether, and how, they might be rebuffed. This article does just that.

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Section: Against Indifferencementioning

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Domestic institutions, growth and global justice

Armstrong

2021

European Journal of Political Theory

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“…I should also note that if this point is granted, it renders moot at least one debate between Armstrong and myself. In an earlier essay (Nili 2016a), I registered skepticism about the hope that the global redistribution of natural resource revenues will have a significant impact on extreme poverty. Armstrong (2017, p. 184) took me to task on this score, suggesting that I must show 'that there is nothing we can do with the proceeds of resource taxes to improve the position of the poor'.…”

Section: Disruptions To Customary Trade and The Fate Of The Poormentioning

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Global poverty, global sacrifices, and natural resource reforms

Nili

2018

Int. Theory

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My aim in this essay is to advance discussion of how to justify the sacrifices that reforms combating global poverty might entail for the world’s better-off. I begin from the assumption that we should not try to motivate such sacrifices solely through the hope that they will produce significant poverty gains. Instead, we should also explore whether the affluent actually have compelling moral claims to the goods that they might be asked to relinquish as part of certain global reforms. This alternative strategy forms the background for my discussion of two influential global reform proposals. The first proposal is to tax the natural resource wealth enjoyed by various affluent countries in order to ameliorate global poverty. The second proposal is to prohibit the resource corporations based in affluent democracies from purchasing natural resources controlled by extreme kleptocrats. I argue that once we examine the relationship between these proposals from a sacrifice-sensitive perspective, we find that they genuinely conflict with each other, and that there are sacrifice-related reasons to put aside the canonical proposal for a global redistribution of natural resource wealth.

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“…There are several reasons why the claims of liberal integrity can have special relevance in a global context. First, these claims sidestep the status quo bias that often inhibits global reform efforts (Nili 2015c). The structural limitations of social science in a global context, such as the inability to compare global institutions across “parallel worlds,” result in endemic social-scientific uncertainty concerning the effects of global reforms.…”

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Liberal Integrity and Foreign Entanglement

Nili

2016

Am Polit Sci Rev

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My aim in this article is to show that there is distinctive normative value to thinking about a liberal polity as an agent with integrity that can be threatened, paralleling the integrity of an individual person. I argue that the idea of liberal integrity organizes and clarifies important moral intuitions concerning the policies of liberal democracies, especially with regard to their global conduct. This idea provides a novel organizing framework for liberal values that currently seem disparate. It also captures important moral intuitions as to how the tainted histories of actual liberal societies should bear on their global conduct. Finally, this idea explains, in a way that a simple appeal to familiar liberal values arguably cannot, why liberal polities have identity-based moral reasons not to entangle themselves in manifestly illiberal practices beyond their borders—reasons whose significance becomes apparent in scenarios and real-world cases that global political theory overlooks.

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Liberal global justice and social science

Cited by 12 publications

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Domestic institutions, growth and global justice

Domestic institutions, growth and global justice

Global poverty, global sacrifices, and natural resource reforms

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