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Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle Against Poverty (Paperback)
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Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle Against Poverty (Paperback)
Series: Human Rights Law in Perspective
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This book addresses a topic that is currently high on the agenda in
many fora: how to specify and secure a social minimum. The term
'social minimum' has different meanings, depending on the context.
These contexts are examined in this book from different
perspectives, including law, sociology, philosophy, politics and
economics. In the first part, the social minimum is discussed from
a conceptual and theoretical point of view. The second part shows
the various ways in which the social minimum can be specified and
measured. There is a need for new indicators that take into
account, for instance, aspects of adequate social participation. As
this part shows, the choice of indicators is closely intertwined
with political choices. The third part approaches the social
minimum from the perspective of legal obligations, addressing the
nature of different obligations imposed on individuals and states.
The fourth part deals with the question of social minimum in the
context of courts, adjudication and justiciability. The role of
international treaties and national constitutions - the
interpretation of the rights they enshrine and the way these are
dealt with by expert committees and courts - is discussed with a
view to understanding how the guarantee of a social minimum can be
promoted within individual countries. Besides being of interest for
academics in fields ranging from legal theory and human rights to
the social sciences, the book also serves as an important source
for students as well as practitioners interested in the social
minimum, and anyone who wants to gain an insight into the current
debates on this extremely important issue.
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