Tables of Contents for Political Obligation in Its Historical Context

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Preface

1. Introduction

Part I. The Historicity of the Question: 2. The identity of the history of ideas

3. Consent in the political theory of John Locke

4. The politics of Locke in England and America in the eighteenth century

Part II. The Historicity of the Answers: 5. Practising history and social science on 'realist' assumptions

6. From democracy to representation: an interpretation of a Ghanaian election

7. 'Hoc signo victor eris': representation, allegiance and obligation in the politics of Ghana and Sri Lanka

8. Democracy unretrieved, or the political theory of Professor Macpherson

9. The success and failure of modern revolutions

Part III. Conclusion: 10. Political obligations and political possibilities

Notes

Index.