The Good Polity

1. Auflage 1989
ISBN: 978-0-631-15804-2
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 499 g

This volume presents a set of new essays by leading economists, philosophers and political scientists concerned with the normative underpinnings of the state. "The Good Polity" is devoted to the analysis of detailed substantive issues arising within the normative theory of the state rather than with the exegesis of received views or the polemical statement of alternative positions. The essays are grouped around the themes of democracy, contract and compliance, and the responsibility of the state. Each author provides a detailed and freestanding examination of one aspect of the normative analysis of the state, and the resulting collection clearly displays the growing interaction between academic disciplines. The editors provide an introduction which sets out the analytic prerequisites for the normative theory of the state. The contributors are: Geoffrey Brennan, Joshua Cohen, Partha Dasgupta, Robert Goodin, Alan Hamlin, Russell Hardin, Philip Pettit, Robert Sugden, Albert Weale.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamlin, Alan

Pettit, Philip

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface vii

1 The Normative Analysis of the State: Some Preliminaries

Alan Hamlin and Philip Pettit 2

Part I Democracy

2 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy

Joshua Cohen 15

3 The Limits of Democracy

Albert Weale 17

4 Politics with Romance: Towards a Theory of Democratic Socialism

Geoffrey Brennan 35

Part II Contract and Compliance

5 Maximizing Social Welfare: Is it the Government's Business?

Robert Sugden 49

6 Liberty, Contract and the State

Alan Hamlin 87

7 Political Obligation

Russell Hardin 103

Part III The Responsibility of the State

8 The State as a Moral Agent

Robert E. Goodin 123

9 The Freedom of the City: A Republican Ideal

Philip Pettit 141

10 Power and Control in the Good Polity
Partha Dasgupta 169

Bibliography 191

Contributors 201

Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Hamlin is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Southampton and author of Ethics, Economics and the State.

Philip Pettit is Professorial Fellow in teh Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He is a General Editor of Basil Blackwell's Philosophical Theory series, author of Judging Justice and co-author of Semantics in Social Science.