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Cambridge University Press Optimal Protection of International Law
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Cambridge University Press Constitutional Illusions and Anchoring Truths
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Cambridge University Press Paying for the Liberal State The Rise of Public Finance in NineteenthCentury Europe
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Cambridge University Press Race Empire and the Idea of Human Development
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Cambridge University Press Stories of Peoplehood The Politics and Morals of Political Membership Contemporary Political Theory
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Cambridge University Press Cellular Phones Public Fears and a Culture of Precaution
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Cambridge University Press Public Participation in Sustainability Science
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Cambridge University Press Governing the Firm
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Cambridge University Press The Political Thought of William Ockham
Book SynopsisThe English Franciscan, William of Ockham (c. 12851349), was one of the most important thinkers of the later middle agesThis book provides a coherent account of Ockham's aims and the principles operating in all his political works.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations; 1. Ockham as a political thinker; 2. The problem of radical action; 3. Theory of institutions: secular and spiritual government; 4. Politics and philosophy: natural right and the ethical basis for Ockham's political ideas; 5. Politics and theology: secular politics and Christian virtue; Conclusion: Ockham as a constructive political thinker; Bibliography; Index of passages in Ockham quoted, discussed, or cited; Index of names; Subject index.
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Cambridge University Press Ideals as Interests in Hobbess Leviathan
Book SynopsisS. A. Lloyd proposes a radically new interpretation of Hobbes's Leviathan that shows transcendent interests - interests that override the fear of death - to be crucial to both Hobbes's analysis of social disorder and his proposed remedy to it.Trade Review"...refreshingly original...a brilliant reading of Hobbes, rigorously argued and tightly written. It deserves to revolutionize the study of Hobbes' political theory." International Studies in Philosophy"For those who want to understand what Hobbes's political theory is, this will be the book to consult." Alan Donagan, California Institute of Technology"The Hobbes scholarship is admirable, the writing is clear, and the quality of argument is uniformly high. Most importantly, Lloyd presents a genuinely original interpretation of Hobbes and meticulously constructs a very plausible argument in support of that interpretation." Greg Kavka, University of California, Irvine"A rich and powerful book with an extremely intriguing thesis." Choice"...this is a brilliant reading of Hobbes, rigorously argued and tightly written. It deserves to revolutionize the study of Hobbes' political theory." International Studies in PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgments; A note on references; Introduction; 1. The standard philosophical interpretation; 2. Hobbes's compositive reconstruction, phase one: identification of the principle of political obligation; 3. Compositive reconstruction, phase two: religion and the redescription of transcendent interests; 4. Hobbes's mechanism for the reproduction of social stability; 5. Hobbes's resolutive analysis, phase two: part 4 of Leviathan; 6. Theory in practice: Leviathan and Behemoth; 7. Hobbes's resolutive analysis, phase one: design and detail; 8. The treatment of transcendent interests; 9. Hobbes's absolutism; Notes; Index.
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Cambridge University Press An Essay on the Modern State
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Cambridge University Press States Nations and Borders The Ethics of Making Boundaries Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics Paperback
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Cambridge University Press Maitland
Book SynopsisF. W. Maitland (18501906) is perhaps the most celebrated English historian since Gibbon. This book is a collection of his later essays about the historical origins of the state, and is designed to bring them to the attention of political theorists and political scientists, as well as historians.Trade Review'… interesting and relevant for political theorists.' Political Studies Review'This delightful collection of essays in the Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought series is warmly to be welcomed. The effect is impressive. The book sheds considerable light on Maitland's interest in groups and its significance for political theorists and historians of political thought, in particular. The Cambridge edition is as much a tribute to the editors' erudition as it is to Maitland's. The greatly improved accessibility of all the essays is a boon to those interested in questions of law and the state, liberty and groups, and the adaptation of legal theory to life, in a historical and contemporary context.' History of Political ThoughtTable of ContentsEditors' introduction; Note on the text; Bibliographical notes; Biographical notes; Glossary of technical terms; Preface; The essays: 1. The corporation sole; 2. The Crown as corporation; 3. The unincorporate body; 4. Moral personality and legal personality; 5. Trust and corporation; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Dictatorship in History and Theory
Book SynopsisThis book brings together the work of historians and political theorists to examine the complex relationship among nineteenth-century democracy, nationalism, and authoritarianism. Political thinkers were faced with a battery of new terms - 'Bonapartism', 'Caesarism', and 'Imperialism' among them - with which to make sense of their era.Table of ContentsPart I. Bonapartism to Its Contemporaries: 1. From consulate to empire: impetus and resistance Isser Woloch; 2. The Bonapartes and Germany T. C. W. Blanning; 3. Prussian conservatives and the problem of Bonapartism David E. Barclay; 4. Tocqueville and French nineteenth-century conceptualizations of the two Bonapartes and their empires Melvin Richter; 5. Marx and Brumaire Terrell Carver; 6. Bonapartism as the progenitor of democracy: the paradoxical case of the French Second Empire Sudhir Hazareesingh; Part II. Bonapartism, Caesarism, Totalitarianism: Twentieth-Century Experiences and Reflections: 7. Max Weber and the avatars of Caesarism Peter Baehr; 8. The concept of Caesarism in Gramsci Benedetto Fontana; 9. From constitutional technique to Caesarist ploy: Carl Schmitt on dictatorship, liberalism and emergency powers John P. McCormick; 10. Bonapartist and Gaullist heroic leadership: comparing crisis appeals to an impersonated people Jack Hayward; 11. The leader and the masses: Hannah Arendt on totalitarianism and dictatorship Margaret Canovan; Part III. Ancient Resonances: 12. Dictatorship in Rome Claude Nicolet; 13. From the historical Caesar to the spectre of Caesarism: the imperial administrator as internal threat Arthur M. Eckstein.
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Cambridge University Press Private Power and Global Authority
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Cambridge University Press difficultyoftolerance
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Cambridge University Press Democracy Defended
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Social Risk Business And Welfare State Development Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Tragic Vision of Politics Ethics Interests and Orders
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Cambridge University Press States and Markets
Book SynopsisThis book introduces the reader to the concepts and tools for studying relations between states and markets. The focus is methodological. Both the economy and the state are analyzed as networks of relations between principals and agents, occupying particular places in the institutional structure.Trade Review"Przeworski has the ambition to address the big questions, the ability to answer them, and the tenacity to make the answers correct. This book is part of a dying breed: it is a general introduction with enough depth that even the most advanced reader can learn something from it. Written in a feisty, accessible style, it puts the political back into political economy." Michael Munger, Duke University"I would have been very excited to encounter this book early in my graduate training. It would have crystallized things that have taken me a whole career to understand. This book could and should be a central core text in political science graduate training. In addition to its virtues as a text, there is a lot of innovation and intellectual leadership in this volume." William Keech, Carnegie-Mellon University"A rare opportunity to view firsthand how modern theoretical developments in economics and politics are beginning to blend and complement one another, from one of the established scholars in the field. In his lucid, conversational style, Przeworski offers a highly readable account of the main ideas in the field, which both educates and stimulates new thinking." Dilip Mookherjee, Boston University"This is a book that will open doors for many students of politics and that will likely become an indispensable text in the field." Political Science QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; Part I. Decentralized Mechanisms: 2. Market miracles and market failures; 3. Incomplete markets, imperfect information; 4. Principal-agent framework; Part II. Centralized Mechanisms: 5. The state; 6. Governments and private agents: regulation; 7. Politicians and bureaucrats: oversight; 8. Citizens and politicians: representation; Part III. The State and the Economy: 9. Government and economic growth; 10. Government and redistribution; 11. Government and insurance; 12. Epilogue; 13. Additional references.
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Cambridge University Press A Course in Public Economics
Book SynopsisA Course in Public Economics, first published in 2004, explores the central questions of whether or not markets work, and if not, what is to be done about it. The first part of the textbook, designed for upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate students, begins with an extended discussion of the two theorems of welfare economics. These theorems show that competitive markets can give rise to socially desirable outcomes, and describe the conditions under which they do so. The second part of the book discusses the kinds of market failure - externalities, public goods, imperfect competition and asymmetric information - that arise when these conditions are not met. The role of the government in resolving market failures is examined. The limits of government action, especially those arising from asymmetric information, are also investigated. A knowledge of intermediate microeconomics and basic calculus is assumed.Table of ContentsPart I. Markets; Section 2. The Exchange Economy; Part II. Externalities; Section 6. Externalities and Negotiation; Part III. Public Goods; Section 10. Pure Public Goods; Part IV. Imperfect Competition; Section 14. Monopoly; Part V. Taxation and Efficiency; Section 16. Taxation; Part VI. Asymmetric Information and Efficiency; Section 19. Asymmetric Information; Part VII. Asymmetric Information and Income Redistribution; Section 23. The Distribution of Income.
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Cambridge University Press Structure Agency Internal Conversat
Book SynopsisThe central problem of social theory is 'structure and agency'. How do the objective features of society influence human agents? Determinism is not the answer, nor is conditioning as currently conceptualised. It accentuates the way structure and culture shape the social context in which individuals operate, but it neglects our personal capacity to define what we care about most and to establish a modus vivendi expressive of our concerns. Through inner dialogue, 'the internal conversation', individuals reflect upon their social situation in the light of current concerns and projects. On the basis of a series of unique, in-depth interviews, Archer identifies three distinctive forms of internal conversation. These govern agents' responses to social conditioning, their individual patterns of social mobility and whether or not they contribute to social stability or change. Thus the internal conversation is seen as being the missing link between society and the individual, structure and agenTrade Review'… a richly rewarding book … Archer has given us, again, a good number of ideas to think with and about.' Journal of Critical RealismTable of ContentsIntroduction: how does structure influence agency?; Part I. Solitude and Society: 1. The private life of the social subject; 2. From introspection to internal conversation: an unfinished journey in three stages; 3. Reclaiming the internal conversation; 4. The process of mediation between structure and agency; Part II. Modes of Reflexivity and Stances Towards Society: 5. Communicative reflexives; 6. Autonomous reflexives; 7. Meta-reflexives; 8. Fractured reflexives; Conclusion: personal powers and social powers.
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Cambridge University Press Recog Struggles Social Movements
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Cambridge University Press Contention and Democracy in Europe 16502000
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Cambridge University Press Challenging Diversity
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Cambridge University Press Architects of Political Change
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Cambridge University Press War and Social Change in Modern Europe
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Cambridge University Press Taming the Sovereigns Institutional Change in International Politics 94 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 94
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Cambridge University Press Justice Without Borders
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Cambridge University Press Lawson Politica Sacra et Civilis Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press Consumer Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Justice and Democracy
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of International Law 96 Cambridge Studies in International Relations Series Number 96
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Cambridge University Press The European Revolutions 18481851 29
Book SynopsisIn this second edition, Jonathan Sperber has updated and expanded his study of the European Revolutions between 1848–1851. A wide-reaching conclusion and a detailed bibliography make the book ideal both for classroom use and for a general reader wishing a better knowledge of this major historical event.Trade Review'… the annotated bibliography, excellent chronology and neat biographies … add to a highly readable volume.' Teaching HistoryTable of Contents1. Society and social conflict in Europe during the 1840s; 2. The pre-revolutionary political universe; 3. The outbreak of revolution; 4. Varieties of revolutionary experience; 5. Polarization and confrontation; 6. The mid-century revolutions in European history.
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Cambridge University Press Florentine Tuscany
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Cambridge University Press Renaissance Civic Humanism Reappraisals and Reflections 57 Ideas in Context Series Number 57
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Cambridge University Press Perspectives on Public Choice
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Cambridge University Press Perspectives on Public Choice
Book SynopsisThis five-part volume surveys the main ideas and contributions to the field of public choice.Table of Contents1. Public choice in perspective Dennis C. Mueller; Part I. The Need for and Forms of Cooperation: 2. Economic theories of the state Russell Hardin; 3. Neither markets nor states: linking transformation processes in collective-action arenas Elinor Ostrom and James Walker; 4. The political economy of Federalism Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld; 5. The public choice of international organizations Bruno S. Frey; 6. Constitutional public choice Dennis C. Mueller; Part II. Voting Rules and Preference Aggregation: 7. Cycling and majority rule James M. Enelow; 8. Majority rule Douglas W. Rae and Eric Schickler; 9. Group choice and individual judgments H. Peyton Young; 10. Some paradoxes of preference aggregation Prasanta K. Pattanaik; 11. Voting and the revelation of preferences for public activities T. Nicolaus Tideman; Part III. Electoral Politics: 12. The spatial analysis of elections and committees: four decades of research Peter C. Ordeshook; 13. Multiparty electoral politics Norman Schofield; 14. Interest groups: money, information and influence David Austen Smith; 15. Logrolling Thomas Stratmann; 16. Political business cycles Martin Paldam; Part IV. Individual Behavior and Collective Action: 17. When is it rational to vote? John H. Aldrich; 18. Voting behavior Morris P. Fiorina; 19. Public Choice Experiments Elizabeth Hoffman; Part V. Public Choice in Action: 20. Modern bureaucratic theory Ronald Wintrobe; 21. The positive theory of public bureaucracy Terry Moe; 22. The political economy of taxation Walter Hettich and Stanley L. Winer; 23. Rent seeking Robert D. Tollison; 24. Endogenous protection: a survey Stephen P. Magee; 25. Why does government's share of national income grow? An assessment of the recent literature on the US experience Cheryl M. Holsey and Thomas Borchering.
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Cambridge University Press Tokugawa Political Writings
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Cambridge University Press Analytical Politics
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Cambridge University Press The Macro Polity
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Cambridge University Press The Macro Polity
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Cambridge University Press Tokugawa Political Writings
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Cambridge University Press Dante Monarchy
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Cambridge University Press Beyond Neutrality
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Cambridge University Press International Relations in Political Thought
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Cambridge University Press International Relations in Political Thought
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