Introduction to the June 2017 issue of Political Studies
| Published date | 01 June 2017 |
| Date | 01 June 2017 |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032321717707157 |
| Subject Matter | Editorial |
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Political Studies
2017, Vol. 65(2) 267
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Introduction to the June 2017
issue of Political Studies
This last issue of Political Studies edited by the team at the University of Nottingham
reflects the commitment of the journal to breadth, plurality and excellence. Several papers
have a primarily normative and/or theoretical focus.
Robert Goodin writes on the duties of charity and the duties of justice. Saul Newman
asks ‘what is an insurrection?’ Ryan Walter explores the characteristics of rhetorical polit-
ical analysis. Sebastiano Bavetta et al. think about freedom, autonomy and happiness.
Guy Aitchison maps three models of republican rights. Edward Page and Clare Heyward
explore the meaning of compensation in the context of climate change.
John Meadowcroft and Elizabeth Morrow’s ethnography of the English Defence
League contrasts with Siu-yau Lee et al.’s paper on attitudes to immigration in Hong
Kong and Birte Gundelach and Anita Manatschal on ethnic diversity and trust. Emanuele
Massetti and Arjan Schakel then look at regionalist parties under decentralisation and
Reut Itzkovitch-Malka and Reuven Hazan unpack the content of party unity while Henrik
Bech Seeberg interrogates issue ownership across time.
To finish, John Garry et al. offer a timely discussion of whether consociational settle-
ments entrench community differences in Northern Ireland, while John McGarry focuses
on Cyprus to ask whether particular power-sharing institutions can be accepted (agreed
to) in the first place.
Editors’ Choice
Duties of Charity, Duties of Justice
DOI: 10.1177/0032321716647402
Our Editors’ Choice in this issue is Robert Goodin’s paper ‘Duties of Charity, Duties of
Justice’. Traditionally, duties of charity have been given a lesser status than duties of
justice, with the latter seen to place obligations upon us and clear rights for title-holders
in a way that the former do not. In his paper, Goodin argues that duties of charity may
sometimes be equal to or even stronger than duties of justice. Under the latter circum-
stances, it may be right to prioritise (duties of) charity over (those of) justice.
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