Product Description: Panarchy is a normative political meta-theory that advocates non-territorial states founded on actual social contracts that are explicitly negotiated and signed between states and their prospective citizens. The explicit social contract, or a constitution, sets the terms under which a state may use coercion against its citizens and the conditions under which the contract may be annulled, revised, rescinded, or otherwise exited from...read more

Product Description: The ’Golden Age' of the welfare state in Europe was characterised by a strengthening of social rights as citizens became increasingly protected through the collective provision of income security and social services. The oil crisis, inflation and high unemployment of the 1970s largely saw the end of welfare expansion with critical voices claiming the welfare state had created an unbalanced focus on the social rights of individuals, above their responsibilities as citizens...read more

Product Description: In whose interests should a corporation be run? Over the last thirty years the field of 'stakeholder theory' has proposed a distinctive answer: a corporation should be run in the interests of all its primary stakeholders - including employees, customers, suppliers and financiers - without contradicting the ethical principles on which capitalism stands...read more

Product Description: In this new edition of Evolution of the Social Contract, Brian Skyrms uses evolutionary game theory to analyze the genesis of social contracts and investigates social phenomena including justice, communication, altruism, and bargaining...read more

Civil Society has become a standard work of reference for those whoseek to understand the role of voluntary citizen action. Recentglobal unrest has shown the importance of social movements andstreet protests in world politics. However, as this lucid bookshows, the power that people have to shape their societies isusually channeled through day-to-day participation in voluntaryassociations and communities: expressions of “normal”civic life beyond the headlines. This is the underlying story ofcivil society. This new edition explores issues that have developedrapidly in recent years, including the overlaps between civilsociety and the market in the form of social enterprises and“venture philanthropy,” and the increasing role ofsocial media and information and communication technologies incivic interaction. Different varieties of civil society in theMiddle East, Africa and elsewhere are investigated in more detail,and case studies, data, and references have been updatedthroughout. Colleges, foundations and NGOs, policy-makers,journalists and commissions of inquiry Ð all have usedEdwards’s book to understand and strengthen the vital rolethat civil society can play in deepening democracy, re-buildingcommunity, and addressing inequality and injustice. This newedition will be required reading for anyone who is interested increating a better world through voluntary citizen action.

Product Description: This book offers a theory of democratic justice. According to the theory, justice emerges from collective agreement among political associates who enjoy approximate equality of power. Such situations can be seen as social contracts, and we find an empirical model for social contracts in the examples of successful common property resource regimes...read more

Product Description: Newly translated by Peter Constantine Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch   The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and persuasive critics...read more

Product Description: An advertising and communications expert traces the fascinating process whereby a passion for an idea, a politician, a celebrity, or a brand gives rise to a set of illogical beliefs that becomes the basis for a powerful movement. Conventional wisdom has it that spin doctors and Madison Avenue are responsible for manipulating our thoughts, causing us to endorse ideas or buy products that we would otherwise reject outright...read more

Product Description: In Rawls, Dewey, and Constructivism, Eric Weber examines and critiques John Rawls' epistemology and the unresolved tension - inherited from Kant - between Representationalism and Constructivism in Rawls' work. Weber argues that, despite Rawls' claims to be a constructivist, his unexplored Kantian influences cause several problems...read more

Product Description: This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on the African sociopolitical landscape...read more

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Product Description: Published originally in 1975, The Limits of Liberty made James Buchanan’s name more widely known than ever before among political philosophers and theorists and established Buchanan, along with John Rawls and Robert Nozick, as one of the three new contractarians, standing on the shoulders of Hobbes, Locke, and Kant...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)