Collected essays
E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten, EPUB
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0457-1
Verlag: Manchester University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
The wide-ranging material will provide an excellent text for students at all levels. It is appropriate reading for a host of courses in the fields of political science, political sociology and political theory at both undergraduate and graduate level. Whilst addressing some philosophically difficult and advanced subjects, the accessible writing makes the subject-matter comprehensible for all levels of students.
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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