List of Tables | p. vii |
Preface and Acknowledgements | p. ix |
Development as Freedom | p. 1 |
Human well-being and freedom | p. 3 |
The freedoms of individuals | p. 8 |
Agency and political participation | p. 10 |
From development theory to praxis | p. 12 |
Human Well-Being and Freedom | p. 18 |
Well-being as freedom | p. 19 |
Perfectionism and liberalism | p. 19 |
Perfectionism in the capability approach | p. 22 |
Freedom and choice | p. 27 |
Central human capabilities | p. 32 |
A thick vague theory of the good | p. 32 |
A political form of liberalism | p. 38 |
Well-being and development praxis | p. 44 |
The dimension option | p. 44 |
The pragmatic option | p. 48 |
Freedom within Structures of Living Together | p. 54 |
Structures of living together | p. 55 |
Irreducibly social goods | p. 55 |
Expanding the evaluation space | p. 57 |
Valuation structures | p. 62 |
Socio-historical agency | p. 67 |
The sources of freedom and agency | p. 67 |
Individual and collective agency | p. 72 |
Motivations and structures of mutual concern | p. 76 |
Self-interest | p. 76 |
Social norms and identity | p. 79 |
Friendship and mutual concern | p. 80 |
Implications for development praxis | p. 84 |
Political Freedom and Practical Reason | p. 87 |
Exercising political freedom | p. 88 |
Participation and democracy | p. 88 |
The value of political freedom | p. 90 |
Political and market freedom | p. 94 |
Practical reason in the political community | p. 98 |
Forms of practical reasoning | p. 98 |
Deliberative democracy | p. 100 |
Principles of decision-making | p. 107 |
Finnis and Nussbaum on practical reasoning | p. 107 |
Perception of particulars | p. 109 |
Deliberation about ends and means | p. 112 |
Beyond the capability space | p. 115 |
From Development Theory to Practice | p. 118 |
Development theory and practice | p. 119 |
Two case studies | p. 121 |
A hermeneutical approach to development | p. 134 |
The Costa Rican Human Development Story | p. 140 |
Universal primary education | p. 141 |
The creation and expansion of the welfare state | p. 146 |
The crisis of the 1980s | p. 155 |
Costa Rica's socio-historical agency | p. 162 |
The National Consultation | p. 165 |
The Combo del ICE | p. 167 |
The fiscal problem | p. 169 |
The Dominican Republic's Narrative | p. 175 |
The emergence of the dictatorship | p. 177 |
The difficult transition to democracy | p. 184 |
The legacy of the dialectical process | p. 189 |
The Dominican Republic's socio-historical agency | p. 196 |
The Comprehensive Development Framework | p. 199 |
Cases of social reform | p. 201 |
The Social Security Reform | p. 205 |
Implications for the capability approach | p. 207 |
Conclusion: The Capability Approach and the Praxis of Development | p. 210 |
Notes | p. 214 |
Bibliography | p. 225 |
Index | p. 237 |
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