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Survey Article: Subsidiarity

Andreas Føllesdal · Journal of Political Philosophy 6(2), 190–218 · 1998

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Andreas Føllesdal
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DOI 10.1111/1467-9760.00052
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedPius XI's encyclical Quadragesimo Anno (1931) formulated the modern principle of subsidiarity, describing it as an injustice and a disturbance of right order to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organisations can do.