What is equality and is it a genuine political ideal? The contributors address this question in a variety of different ways, and in the course of doing so they contrast a number of different notions of equality, and distinguish equality from the related idea of giving priority to the worst off.

Andrew Mason is Professor of Political Theory at the University of Southhampton. he is the author of Explaining Political Disagreement (1993), and editor of Ideals of Equality (1998).