One major objection to social rights is a failure of determining which precise social and
economic claims should be granted rights status. The social rights debate has grappled with …

Exploring Social Rights looks into the theoretical and practical implications of social rights.
The book is organised in five parts. Part I considers theoretical aspects of social rights, and …

Let us assume, with egalitarian liberals, that people have social rights to minimum income,
housing, education and health care, and that civil and political rights should be …

There is considerable flexibility in the use of the term 'social rights'. The list of such rights
varies in international documents, and it is difficult to find a common denominator or ground …

Contemporary conceptions of social rights tend to be prospective and aspirational rather
than grounded in the law as it actually is. Central to these conceptions–and to Fernando …

Constitutional social rights have been obscured by the ideological discussion concerning
liberal and economic, social and cultural human rights. At a philosophical level, this question …

Making Economic and Social Rights Count: Page 1 Making Economic and Social Rights Count:
A Strategy for the Future PHILIP ALSTON THE international community devotes remarkably …

The popularisation of the term “social rights” is accompanied by its acquisition of an
exhortatory and rhetorical weight without a development of a statement of its meaning. This …

I argue that the quest for a unified account of the existence of rights–and in particular of the
role “social recognition” might be thought to play as a condition of their existence–is doomed …

This book examines the contribution social theory can make to understanding different
human rights which operate in a variety of settings. Including an introduction to the …