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Basic income in the United States: Redefining citizenship in the liberal state

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  • Almaz Zelleke

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This paper examines citizenship-based arguments for work-conditioned welfare and basic income. I argue that the most common citizenship-based justifications for work requirements—the paternalistic and civic republican arguments—are flawed because of their selectivity, and that the only defensible citizenship-based justification for work requirements is the socialist model, which enforces work requirements universally on all. I offer as a liberal alternative a radically pluralist notion of citizenship, with a kind of universal economic suffrage at its core, to justify an unconditional basic income in the US.

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  • Almaz Zelleke, 2005. "Basic income in the United States: Redefining citizenship in the liberal state," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 63(4), pages 633-648.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rsocec:v:63:y:2005:i:4:p:633-648
    DOI: 10.1080/00346760500364866
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    1. David George, 2006. "Social class and social identity," Review of Social Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 64(4), pages 429-445.
    2. David Chavanne & Kevin A. McCabe & Maria Pia Paganelli, 2015. "Are Self-Made Men Made Equally? An Experimental Test of Impartial Redistribution and Perceptions of Self-Determination," Nordic Journal of Political Economy, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, vol. 40, pages 1-3.

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