Preface ix
Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit
Part I: Disciplinary Contributions
1 Analytical philosophy 7
Philip Pettit
2 Continental Philosophy 39
David West
3 History 72
Richard Tuck
4 Sociology 90
Robert Brown
5 Economics 123
Geoffrey Brennan
6 Political science 157
Robert E. Goodin
7 Legal Studies 183
Tom D. Campbell
Part II Major Ideologies
8 Anarchism 215
Richard Sylvan
9 Conservatism 244
Anthony Quinton
10 Feminism 269
Jane J. Mansbridge and Susan Moller Okin
11 Liberaslism 291
Alan Ryan
12 Marxism 312
Barry Hindess
13 Socialism 333
Peter Self
Part III Special Topics
14 Autonomy 359
Gerald Dworkin
15 Community 366
Will Kymlicka
16 Contract and consent 379
Jean Hampton
17 Constitutionalism and the rule of law 394
C. L. Ten
18 Corporatism and syndicalism 404
Bob Jessop
19 Democracy 411
Amy Gutmann
20 Dirty Hands 422
C. A. Coady
21 Discourse 431
Ernesto LacLau
22 Distributive Justice 438
Serge-Christophe Kolm
23 Efficiency 462
Russell Hardin
24 Environmentalism 471
John Passmore
25 Equality 489
Richard J. Arneson
26 Federalism 508
William H. Riker
27 International affairs 515
Chirs Brown
28 Legitimacy 527
Richard E. Flathman
29 Liberty 534
Chandran Kukathas
30 Power 548
Terence Ball
31 Property 558
Andrew Reeve
32 Republicanism 568
Knud Haakonssen
33 Rights 575
Jeremy Waldron
34 Secession and nationalism 586
Allen Buchanan
35 Sociobiology 597
Allan Gibbard
36 The state 611
Patrick Dunleavy
37 Toleration and fundamentalism 322
Stephen Macedo
38 Totalitarianism 629
Eugene Kamenka
39 Trust 638
John Dunn
40 Virtue 645
Michael Slote
41 Welfare 651
Alan Hamlin
Index 665
Robert Goodin is a Distinguished Professor jointly of
Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School
of Social Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British
Academy. General Editor of a 10-volume series of Oxford Handbooks
of Political Science and founding editor of Blackwell’s Journal of
Political Philosophy, Goodin served as co-editor of the British
Journal of Political Science and Associate Editor of Ethics.
Philip Pettit, formerly of the Australian National
University, is now L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of
Politics and Human Values in Princeton University. He works in
moral and political theory and on background issues in
philosophical psychology and social ontology.
Thomas Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.
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