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11 - Socio-Economic Rights

Between Essentialism and Egalitarianism

from Part II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2017

Reidar Maliks
Affiliation:
Universitetet i Oslo
Johan Karlsson Schaffer
Affiliation:
Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
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Moral and Political Conceptions of Human Rights
Implications for Theory and Practice
, pp. 258 - 298
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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