Basic Income, Employment and Welfare Reform
The Handbook of Basic Income Research (with Jose Antonio Noguera, Yannick Vanderborght, and Karl Widerquist), edited volume, forthcoming with Blackwell Publishers (2008)
This Handbook will gather some of the most important readings on basic income from the...
Review Article: Recent Developments in the Basic Income Debate, in preparation for Journal of European Social Policy (2007)
This article reviews the current state of affairs in basic income research by looking in...
The Public Administration Case against Participation Income (with Lindsay Stirton), Social Service Review (2007)
Anthony Atkinson’s proposal for a participation income (PI) has been acclaimed as a workable compromise...
A Plea for the Use of Laboratory Experiments in Basic Income Research (with José Antonio Noguera), Basic Income Studies (2006)
In recent years interest in conducting a European basic income experiment, along the lines of...
The Political Resilience of Basic Income (2006)
Recent research in comparative policy has drawn attention to the importance of path-dependency and stickiness...
The Many Faces of Universal Basic Income (with Lindsay Stirton), The Political Quarterly (2004)
As the debate on unconditional basic income, basic capital and cognate schemes matures, it has...
Stakeholding - A New Paradigm in Social Policy (with Keith Dowding and Stuart White), The Ethics of Stakeholding (2003)
This introduction to a recent collection of papers on "The Ethics of Stakeholding" charts the...
The Ethics of Stakeholding (with Keith Dowding and Stuart White) (2003)
The Ethics of Stakeholding brings together leading academics in the fields of political philosophy and...
Sharing Job Resources: Ethical Reflections on the Justification of Basic Income, Analyse & Kritik (2000)
Philippe Van Parijs’s ethical justification of basic income is based on the argument that job...
Basisinkomen en het reciprociteitsbeginsel: een analytische benadering, Ethiek en Maatschappij (1999)
In the ongoing debate on reforming the welfare state, a marginal but notable position is...
Arbeid en samenleving. Een essay over de herpolitisering van arbeid, Tijschrift voor Sociologie (1997)
Democratic Theory
Recognition, Equality and Democracy: Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Politics (with Cillian McBride and Shane O'Neill) (2008)
This volume brings together a range of theoretical responses to issues in Irish politics. Its...
Introduction: Theorising Politics (with Cillian McBride and Shane O'Neill), Irish Political Studies (2007)
This is the introduction to a special issue of Irish Political Studies on "Recognition, Equality,...
The Morality and Heuristics of Consent, Deliberation and Decision: Economics, Constitutional Theory and Deliberative Democracy (2004)
In this chapter I comment on Andreas Suchanek's paper "What is Meant by Consent", published...
Vlaanderen voor het Blok? Het electorale succes van extreem-rechts herbekeken (with Michael Wagemans), Samenleving en Politiek (2001)
This brief note explores the continuing rise of the Flemish Blok, the extreme right-wing party...
Disability Rights and Politics
Disability Rights in Ireland: Chronicle of a Missed Opportunity (with Judy Walsh), Irish Political Studies (2007)
This article critically examines the Disability Act 2005 which regulates access to public services for...
Rights or Policy? A Rights-based Approach to Disability Services (with Judy Walsh) (2006)
This paper explores the role and justification of rights-based models of service delivery for disabled...
Moral and Political Philosophy
Egalitarianism, Free-rider, and Utilitarianism, International Encyclopaedia in Social Policy (2006)
I have authored three entries in this multi-volume Encyclopediae on social policy.
Altruism, Impartiality and Moral Demands, The Ethics of Altruism (2004)
Advocates of altruism maintain that altruism is an inherently beneficial and, therefore, morally desirable motivational...
Altruism, Impartiality and Moral Demands, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (2002)
Advocates of altruism maintain that altruism is an inherently beneficial and, therefore, morally desirable motivational...
Een liberale weg naar het nationalisme?, Een Vierde Weg? Links-Liberalisme als traditie en oriëntatiepunt (2001)
This chapter explores the possibility of a liberal road to nationalism. The main challenge, I...
Public Health Ethics
Global Access to Essential Medicines: Patents, Partnership and the Health Impact Fund (with Carlos Bruen), Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics (2009)
The Regulation of Suicide: Ethics, Policy, and Public Health (2006)
Suicide is a major cause of medical, social and political concern in most countries. According...
A Paradox in the Justification of Public Smoking Restrictions (2006)
Following recent legislation in the Republic of Ireland and elsewhere, radical smoking restrictions have become...
The Abuse of Rights in Tobacco Control Debates (2006)
Recent debates on tobacco control illustrate how contemporary political argument abuses rights discourse, substituting claims...
The Strategic Use of Argument in Tobacco Control: The Case of Workplace Smoking Bans in Ireland (with Carlos Bruen) (2006)
This paper discusses the debate leading up to the workplace smoking ban, instituted in Ireland...