...those who are not. In many respects this is our most important moral decision. As Michael Walzer says, The primary good that we distribute to one another...what we do with regard to membership structures all other distributive choices. It determines with whom we make those choices, from whom we require obedience...

...another is membership in some human community. And what we do with regard to membership structures all other distributive choices. It determines with whom...obedience and collect taxes, to whom we allocate goods and services.2 All too often, we choose not to 'distribute' this primary good, but to hoard it amongst...

...those who are not. In many respects this is our most important moral decision. As Michael Walzer says, The primary good that we distribute to one another...what we do with regard to membership structures all other distributive choices. It determines with whom we make those choices, from whom we require obedience...

...collected was the unforgiving presence of homo sapiens]'' We might well agree with Michael Walzcr that "the primary good that we distribute to one another is membership in some human community" and that "men and women without membership anywhere are stateless persons,""1 just as we might nod in knowing...

...these issues, characterizes membership in some community as a primary good of a very special sort: "What we do with regard to membership structures all...collect taxes, to whom we allocate goods and services." Walzer, Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality (New York: Basic Books, 1983), p. 31....

...scientists are using citizenship theories to explain this movement. As Michael Walzer states (1983, p. 31), "the primary good that we distribute to one another is membership in some human community" and with increasing frequency that "membership" is citizenship in a country. Academic interest has increased...

...spheres. Walzer's normative treatment of membership is presented against this backdrop. Noting that "the primary good that we distribute to one another is membership in some human community" (31), he raises two fundamental questions of distributive justice. First, do political communities...

...idea of distributive justice presupposes a bounded world within which distributions take place. . . . The primary good that we distribute to one another...membership structures all our other distributive choices. (Walzer 1983,31) While welfare states achieve a high degree of equality for their members, Walzer argues...

...extremely sensitive values of human life. Michael Walzer (1983: 31) has expressed it very succinctly: 'The primary good that we distribute to one another is membership in some human community. Men and women without membership anywhere are stateless persons.' Being a member of a nation state...

...out would-be immigrants motivated by economic self-interest, but not those subjected to persecution: "The primary good that we distribute to one another is membership in some community" (1981; 1983, Chapter 2, p. 1). He argues, however, that states lack the right to keep members...