The case against congestion pricing is often posed in egalitarian terms.
In this respect it is important to keep in mind, as Kymlicka also argues, that the national community is conceived in egalitarian terms: the two fundamental principles of the nation – popular sovereignty and equality of all members of the national community – are at the same time the two core principles of democracy (Greenfeld, 1992: 10).
Or it could show a continued drift toward redefining democracy in non-egalitarian terms, as Paul S. Ryan, legal counsel for the Campaign Legal Center, argues.
"The city is very egalitarian in terms of its topography.
In modern democratic societies, the term "egalitarian" is often used to refer to a position that favors, for any of a wide array of reasons, a greater degree of equality of income and wealth across persons than currently exists.
We should not expect them to be egalitarian in 2013 terms and mark them down where they fall short.
Consider the implications of a recent study by Harvard economists Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz on pharmacy, which they rate as one of the most egalitarian professions in terms of the numbers of women and the minimal pay gap between men and women.
We understand the pathway to the egalitarian transitions in terms of the evolution of SNMs affecting the obligate co-dispersal of both partners (sometimes called 'vertical transmission').
Whatever the Bible was speaking against, it wasn't the long-term, faithful, egalitarian partnerships we know today.
Also note that a 44% wealth share for the top 10% (and a 12.5% wealth share for the top 1%, according to the FT) would mean that Britain is currently one the most egalitarian countries in history in terms of wealth distribution; in particular this would mean that Britain is a lot more equal that Sweden, and in fact a lot more equal than what Sweden as ever been (including in the 1980s).
Having said, that there's some evidence political trust is related to other aspects of a society's culture, in particular how egalitarian that culture is in terms of income and wealth distribution.
