Dowding Power, luck and freedom

Collected essays
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0455-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. Power luck and freedom is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dowding, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: power, luck and freedom
Part I: Power
1. Why should we care about the definition of power?
2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships
3. Rational choice and community power structures
4. Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacy
Part II: Luck
5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry
6. Shaping future luck
7. Luck, equality and responsibility
8. Luck and leadership
Part III: Freedom
9. Choice: its increase and its value
10. The value of choice in public policy
11. Republican freedom, rights and the coalition problem
12. The construction of rights
13. Social choice and the grammar of rights and freedoms
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra