How Much Inequality is Consistent with Federalism? The Scope of Federal Distributive Justice
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https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2018.059.07Keywords:
Federalism, Autonomy, Fairness, Equality, Inequality, Justice, Distribution, LegitimacyAbstract
The traditional doctrine on federalism claims that economic inequalities are morally justified as long as they result from the legitimate exercise of federal subunit self-government. This paper discusses that claim and examines the philosophical grounds of federal economic decentralization in order to lay the basis for a federal theory of distributive justice. I explore the analogy between federal organizations and the international order claiming that moral conditions of political legitimacy generate some requirements for distribution. But also, I criticize the idea of fraternity as a demanding and fragile political virtue. I try to show that fraternity gives us stronger reasons to reduce economic inequality in territorial federal states than in multicultural federal states.
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