Capabilities, Lists, and Public Reason: Continuing the Conversation

By Amartya Sen. 2004

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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In Sociology and Political Science

1. I. Robeyns
2. S. Alkire
3. D. Clark
4. M. Biggeri
5. Vincenzo Mauro
6. N. Townsend
7. Jean-François Trani
8. F. Burchi

Citations in the corpus

• Public Goods, Global Public Goods and the Common Good (2007, background): “Public debate is indeed central for articulating a society’s values and fleshing out the capabilities that people have reason to choose and value (Sen, 2004a).”
• Wellbeing, Freedom and Social Justice: The Capability Approach Re-Examined (2017, background): “At the beginning of this century, there was a fierce discussion in the capability literature about whether it was a valid critique of Sen’s work that it lacked a specific list (Nussbaum 2003a; Robeyns 2003; Sen 2004a; Qizilbash 2005).”
• The Social Framework for Projects: a conceptual but practical model to assist in assessing, planning and managing the social impacts of projects (2017, neutral): “Sen AK. 2004.”
• The Capability Approach: Using the capability approach: prospective and evaluative analyses (2008, background): “To these two we might add a third, descriptive analyses (Sen 2004), but it seems sufficient to the purposes of this paper to confine attention to these two.”
• From food availability to nutritional capabilities: Advancing food security analysis (2016, methodology): “First, to some extent the human right approach is closely linked to the capability approach: as argued by several scholars (e.g., Sen, 2004b; Nussbaum, 2011), most of the human rights can be expressed in terms of rights to capabilities (e.g., right to health).”
• Human Development: Definitions, Critiques, and Related Concepts (2010, background): “First, they are flexible – there is not one 'fixed and forever' (Sen 2004) list of relevant dimensions or capabilities.”
• Choosing dimensions: the capability approach and multidimensional poverty. CPRC Working Paper No. 88. (2007, neutral): “32 Sen 2004 33Alkire 2002, Alkire 2006 " # % .”
• The Multidimensionality of Child Poverty: Evidence from Afghanistan (2013, background): “According to Sen, the selection of dimensions should follow a democratic process of public scrutiny and debate (Sen 2004a, b).”
• Monitoring Inequality among Social Groups: A Methodology Combining Fuzzy Set Theory and Principal Component Analysis1 (2008, neutral): “This paper acknowledges the difficulties in defining a list of central capabilities, and it does not intend to get involved in this relevant enquiry (cf. Alkire, 2002; Nussbaum, 2003; Robeyns, 2003; Sen, 2004; Vizard and Burchardt, 2007).”
• The Capability Approach: Its Development, Critiques and Recent Advances (2005, background): “Meanwhile Sen (1999; 2004; 2005) has advocated a more direct approach for eliciting relevant information about the formation of human values, which emphasises the constructive role of democracy and the importance of public participation and discussion: The problem is not with listing important…”