How to Overcome Structural Injustice? Social Connectedness and the Tenet of Subsidiarity

Aßländer, Michael S.

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“…Others have sought to extend Young's work by shedding light into how the collective element of Young's SCMR unfolds -more specifically, "which responsibilities concern which groups in society" (Aßländer 2018, p. 1). Aßländer (2018), for example, builds on Young's work and adds the tenet of subsidiarity and Kant's perfect and imperfect duties to provide a clearer conceptualization regarding the different layers of responsibility in society. Schrempf (2014) applies social connection responsibility specifically to obesity, extending Young's concept of responsibility by combining it with network theory to better examine how an actor is connected to a societal problem.…”

Section: Applications and Criticism Of Scmr In Business Ethicsmentioning

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Young’s Social Connection Model and Corporate Responsibility

Phillips

Schrempf-Stirling

2021

Philosophy of Management

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Recent structural innovations in global commerce present difficult challenges for legacy understandings of responsibility. The rise of outsourcing, sub-contracting, and mobile app-based platforms have dramatically restructured relationships between and among economic actors. Though not entirely new, the remarkable rise in the prevalence of these “not-quite-arm’s-length” relationships present difficulties for conceptions of responsibility based on interrogating the past for specifiable actions by blameworthy actors. Iris Marion Young invites investigation of a “social connection model of responsibility” (SCMR) that is, in many ways, better suited to this new commercial reality. Scholars working to understand corporate responsibility have invoked Young’s model to some good effect, though often superficially and uncritically. In this paper, we look closely at Young’s social connection model and its potential for helping us understand corporate responsibility in a radically networked world.

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Section: Applications and Criticism Of Scmr In Business Ethicsmentioning

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Young’s Social Connection Model and Corporate Responsibility

Phillips

Schrempf-Stirling

2021

Philosophy of Management

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“…Boiled down into practical terms, for Young (2004, p. 381) the individual can take up her political responsibility by 'joining with others in a public discourse where we try to persuade one another about curses of collective actions that will contribute to ameliorating the problem'. Yet, there are several limits in this assertion, and Young does not offer us many clarifications (see also Aßländer, 2020).…”

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Discharging the moral responsibility for collective unjust enrichment in the global economy

Corvino

Pirni

2021

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In this article we wonder how a person can discharge the political responsibility for supporting and benefiting from unjust social structures. Firstly, we introduce the concept of structural injustice and defend it against three possible objections: ‘explanatory nationalism’, a diachronic interpretation of the benefits of industry-led growth, being part of a social structure does not automatically mean being responsible for its negative consequences. Then, we hold that both Iris Marion Young’s ‘social connection model’ and Robin Zheng’s ‘role-ideal model’ provide clear indications on how to unload responsibility for supporting/participating in unjust social structures, but fail to explain how to get rid of responsibility for unjust enrichment. We maintain that both models should be complemented with a global redistributive scheme that allows to disgorge the benefits that are unfairly obtained in the global economic system, besides undertaking collective transformative actions and assuming ideal-role responsibilities.

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“…As articulated by della Porta (2000: 226), corruption and confidence in government are ‘interrelated, producing spirals and vicious circles’. Social connectedness seems to be another component of combatting structural injustices, including corruption (Aßländer, 2018). Anduiza et al (2013: 1679) find that partisanship impacts perceptions of corruption, arguing that ‘citizens consider corruption less serious when it affects a politician of the party they feel close to, than when it affects a politician belonging to another party’.…”

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“…In addition to the press freedom and expert evaluations of corruption interaction term and the main effects, we also include a series of control variables in our regression models that previous empirical studies suggest can influence citizens’ perceptions of government corruption in a country (Aßländer, 2018; Anduiza et al, 2013; Avkiran et al, 2016; Becker et al, 2016; Davis et al, 2004; della Porta, 2000; Miller et al, 2000; Winters and Weitz-Shapiro, 2013). These control variables include gross domestic product (GDP) per capita from Penn World Tables, level of democracy from Polity, the degree of ethnic fractionalization from Alesina et al (2003) that involves a combination of racial and linguistic characteristics, and measures of religiosity and social connectedness from the Gallup World Poll.…”

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Freedom of the press and perceptions about government corruption

Flavin

Montgomery

2019

International Political Science Review

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The media can play an important role in the relationship between citizens and their government by acting as a watchdog and providing timely information about malfeasance and corruption. We examine whether citizens’ perceptions of government corruption are closer to country experts’ assessments in countries where there are higher levels of press freedom. Using data on citizens’ perceptions of government corruption and country expert evaluations of levels of political corruption for over 100 countries, we present evidence that the relationship between expert measures of corruption and citizens’ perceptions is heightened as the level of press freedom increases across our sample. These findings suggest that a free press can play an important role in bringing corruption to light, educating citizens, and potentially allowing them to better hold their elected officials accountable.

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How to Overcome Structural Injustice? Social Connectedness and the Tenet of Subsidiarity

Cited by 15 publications

References 49 publications

Young’s Social Connection Model and Corporate Responsibility

Young’s Social Connection Model and Corporate Responsibility

Discharging the moral responsibility for collective unjust enrichment in the global economy

Freedom of the press and perceptions about government corruption

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