Erin Kelly’s scientific contributions

... The Theory of Justice as Fairness (Rawls, 1971) is one of the main current treaties on the procedural character of justice (i.e., the formulation and application of distributive criteria by controlling agencies). The author sought to promote an analysis of society guided by social justice, understood as the institution of rights in democratic regimes through the combination of two principles of justice: freedom and equality. ...

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(In)Compatibilities Between the Rawlsian and Skinnerian Perspectives of Social Justice

... If there is no formal discrimination in the labor market (i.e., the individuals are not barred from entry based on gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation), such a definition of equal opportunity converges with the traditional notion of fair equality of opportunity articulated by Rawls in Theory of Justice and in political philosophy more broadly (Rawls, 2009;Brighouse and Swift, 2008;Rawls, 2001;Arneson, 1999). Moreover, this definition of equal opportunity is commensurate with empirical treatments of the topic. ...

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Identifying Preferences for Equal College Access, Income, and Income Equality