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Abraham, Arun. "Capability, Freedom and Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39936_index.html>

Abraham, A. , 2005-09-01 "Capability, Freedom and Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC Online <PDF>. 2011-03-14 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p39936_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: As a strategy for addressing the pressing issue of absolute deprivation and as a critique of alternative informational frameworks of justice, Amartya Sen�s capability approach has come to enjoy an independent existence in the lexicon of distributive justice. Rather than specifying capabilities in terms of human flourishing, Sen focuses on the freedom of a society to prioritize its valuable capabilities and functionings, recognizing the crucial role that democratic public reasoning plays in human well-being in terms of the opportunities it provides for open public discussion and scrutiny as well as in the formation of values. Although Sen follows Rawls in much of his emphasis on the role of public reasoning, there are important differences between their conceptions of the limits and content of public reasoning and in their understanding of political objectivity. This paper draws on the implications of these differences for some of the tensions between democracy and justice and suggests that the substantially broader conceptions that supplement the capability approach give us good reasons to ground the demands of justice in democratic procedures.

Family democracy, communication patterns and adolescents' political development (democratic values, reasoning and civic engagement).

Democratic Development and Public Goods Spending: a Comparative Politics Approach Using the American States during the Antebellum Period (1789-1860)