There have been many great political thinkers and philosophers across history who have written books, essays, and journals on societal organizations, human rights, and social interactions. Some of these thinkers, like Kautilya and Socrates put forth their ideas thousands of years ago, others, like John Stuart Mill, Immanuel Kant, and […]

Delimitation refers to the process of drawing up administrative constituencies for elections to a legislative body. Essentially, it means dividing a state or country into smaller parts, such that each part has roughly the same population and elects a representative who stands for the interests of that part in law-making […]

The Indian government recently called for a special session of the Parliament, starting September 18. As it drew closer, its agenda grew clearer. The first and most essential piece of business to be considered in the new and sprawling Parliament Building was to be about the right to representation for […]

Collective Capabilities, Culture, and Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom An Analysis by Peter Evans In this paper, Peter Evans, Professor in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Berkeley, argues that the more challenging implications of Sen’s are largely left unexplored in Development as Freedom and that exploring them […]

Theories of John Rawls, Amartya Sen, and Martha Nussbaum: A Comparison⦁ Is justice a universal concept or is it something that each individual experiences differently?⦁ Is it shaped by what an individual believes is possible?⦁ Is justice seen only as something to be delivered through the courts or does it […]