6/19/2023 0 Comments Tocqueville democracyFor John Rawls – the most famous political philosopher of the last century – the idea entailed a far more egalitarian distribution of economic and political power, combined with steep, progressive inheritance taxation to prevent extreme wealth inequality. Margaret Thatcher deployed the term to justify her “Right to Buy” scheme, which revolutionized the electoral landscape and political psychology of voters by transforming Britain from a society of council house tenants to one in which the majority owned their home. In Britain and the United States competing visions of the idea have exerted a profound influence over both policy and theory. There are few genealogies of “property-owning democracy.” This is a remarkable fact. Share the post "Tocqueville and Property-Owning Democracy"
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