How Specific Should Catholic Social Thought Teaching Be?

On the Legal Scholarship Network, Michele Pistone of Villanova Law School posts "The Devil in the Details: How Specific Should Catholic Social Thought Teaching Be?," also published recently in the Journal of Catholic Social Thought.  The abstract:

The article explores Catholic social teaching's tradition of generality, and assesses the wisdom of, and potential for, change to a more specific orientation. The article enlightens the reader as to reasons for the traditional approach to Catholic social teaching, what might be gained by the articulation of a more concrete social teaching, the assertion that a more specific social teaching will require greater lay input, a suggestion for a possible mechanism for accomplishing this, and the benefits of greater lay input, particularly via the aforementioned mechanism. The article also makes some recommendations as to when, how, and to what degree the Church should aspire to a more detailed formation of its social teaching.

UPDATE:  Professor Pistone tells me that because of a glitch at LSN, an earlier version of her article got posted on the website to which I linked.  The up-to-date version will be posted in the near future; stay tuned and I'll mention it.