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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Specifying and Securing a Social Minimum in the Battle Against Poverty by Edited by Toomas Kotkas Edited by Ingrid Leijten Edited by Frans Pennings
This book addresses a topic that is currently high on the agenda in many fora: how to specify and secure a social minimum? The term social minimum has different meanings depending on the context. These contexts are examined in this book from different perspectives such as law sociology philosophy politics and economics.In the first part of the book the social minimum is discussed from a conceptual and theoretical point of view. The second part shows the various ways in which the social minimum can be specified and measured. The third part approaches the social minimum from the perspective of legal obligations and the fourth part deals with the question of social minimum in the context of courts adjudication and justiciability. The role of international treaties and national constitutions the interpretation of the rights they enshrine and the way these are dealt with by expert committees and courts is discussed with a view to understand how they can bring countries to guarantee a social minimum.