Defending the Welfare State

Jeffrey Obler and Robert E. Goodin

American Political Science Review, 1986, vol. 80, issue 3, 949-954

Abstract: An ethical defense of the welfare state may, as Robert E. Goodin has argued, adumbrate the notion that responsibility to provide for “needy strangers” flows from the same source as family responsibility. But this view of the moral responsibility for protecting vulnerable people is open to challenge. In this Controversy, Jeffrey Obler takes issue on this point, and Goodin replies.

Date: 1986
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