Definitions
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- noun The political
doctrine that holds that all people in asociety should haveequal rights from birth.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the doctrine of the equality of mankind and the desirability of political and economic and social equality
Etymologies
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Examples
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The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralized access to unedited stories.
Amateurism, the Internet and Literary Criticism: by Nigel Beale 2009
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In the name of egalitarianism, the tournament features the club champions of FIFA's six confederations, plus a representative from the host nation.
Club Champions of the World Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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The price we pay for the growth in egalitarianism offered by the Internet is the decentralized access to unedited stories.
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Racial egalitarianism is another typically leftist position.
What a Bunch of Apes! « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website 2009
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So yes, egalitarianism is possible in a working environment, but I think the conditions are a lot harder to realise — first you have to have a relatively small employee pool, and then you have to ensure that the personalities of those employees complement each other well enough to self-police their behaviour.
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If I were interested only in egalitarianism and didn’t care at all about incentive effects, I would consider a progressive consumption tax clearly preferable to a progressive income tax.
Matthew Yglesias » Making Consumption Taxes More Progressive 2010
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But the contradiction of being so reliant on tests that produce huge disparate impact, vastly greater than the EEOC’s Four-Fifths guideline for suspicion of discrimination, versus their professions of liberal egalitarianism is acute.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Judging a Person Based on a Single Forwarded Personal E-Mail 2010
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So, honestly, Uff the Fluff, what’s Matthews’s explanation for the increase in egalitarianism? edward says:
Matthew Yglesias » Marriages Becoming More Financially Egalitarian 2010
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Anyone: What’s Yglesias explanation for the increase in egalitarianism?
Matthew Yglesias » Marriages Becoming More Financially Egalitarian 2010
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That gradually became radical egalitarianism, which is an ideal not of equality of opportunity but of equality of results.
Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline 1996
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