{"product_id":"shared-and-institutional-agency-9780197580905","title":"Shared and Institutional Agency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOur human lives involve remarkable forms of practical organization-- diachronic organization of individual activity; small-scale organization of shared action; and the organization of institutions. In this book, Michael Bratman argues that the key to these multiple, inter-related forms of human practical organization is our capacity for planning agency. Drawing on earlier work on the roles of planning agency in our human, cross-temporal and small-scale social organization, it focuses on the role of planning agency within our organized institutions, whether a religious congregation, a small business, a professional association, a city council, a university, a non-profit organization, a corporation, a political party, a legal system, or a democratic state. Shared and Institutional Agency draws on ideas, inspired by H.L.A. Hart, that our organized institutions are rule-guided, and that to understand this, we need a theory of social rules. This book develops a planning theory of social rul","brand":"Oxford University Press Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524591657303,"sku":"9780197580905","price":33.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780197580905.jpg?v=1731857390","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shared-and-institutional-agency-9780197580905","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}