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  • Making Health Public

    A Manifesto for a New Social Contract

    by Peter Littlejohns, David J. Hunter, Albert Weale, Jacqueline Johnson, Toslima Khatun ...
    A public health crisis is gripping the UK. Improvements in life expectancy have stalled, health inequalities have widened, obesity and alcohol misuse are placing an increasing strain on health services and urban air pollution is now widely recognised as a serious health hazard. COVID-19 revealed the weaknesses of the UK's public health system, once thought to be among the best in the world.Against ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Modern Social Contract Theory

    by Albert Weale ...
    Modern Social Contract Theory provides an exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present. It locates the central themes of that theory in the intellectual legacy of utilitarianism, particularly the problems of defining principles of justice and of showing the grounds of moral obligation. It demonstrates how theorists responded in a novel way to the ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • The Will of the People

    A Modern Myth

    by Albert Weale ...
    Democracies today are in the grip of a myth: the myth of the will of the people. Populist movements use the idea to challenge elected representatives. Politicians, content to invoke the will of the people, fail in their duty to make responsible and accountable decisions. And public contest over political choices is stifled by fears that opposing the will of the people will be perceived as elitist ... Read more

    $16.00 USD

  • Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies

    The Bloomington School and Beyond

    by Filippo Sabetti, Anas Malik, Ion Sterpan, Abigail Sullivan, Scott Yabiku, Abigail York, Paul Dragos Aligica, Rosolino A. Candela, Ronald J. Oakerson, Margaret M. Polski0, Karol Edward Soltan1, Michael A. Fotos III2, Dario Castiglione3, Albert Weale5 ...
    The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (now renamed the Ostrom Workshop), which they founded more than 40 years ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • The Value and Limits of Rights

    Essays in Honour of Peter Jones

    Edited by Ian O'Flynn, Albert Weale FBA ...
    Rights are part of our everyday moral and political vocabulary. Yet while few would deny that rights are important, there is a great deal of disagreement about just how valuable rights are and what their proper limits ought to be. For example, some scholars and practitioners maintain that human rights are valuable because they lay down a framework of protection, while at the same time leaving ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Citizenship, Democracy and Justice in the New Europe

    Edited by Percy B. Lehning, Albert Weale ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The contributors to this study address the question of how political theory is relevant to the construction of new Europe and the tie-in issues of citizenship, social justice and political legitimacy. By using techniques of contemporary political theory, the book argues that the emergence of new Europe poses fundamental questions of value and principle and challenges more established political ... Read more

    $81.99 USD

  • Equality and Social Policy

    by Albert Weale ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Inequality
    Originally published in 1978, this book presents a philosophical analysis of the principle of equality, and is also a study of the institutional implications of that principle in the field of social policy. The author distinguishes between a ‘procedural’ and a ‘substantive’ version of the principle of equality and considers the implications of both. Procedural equality is identified with the ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Democratic Politics and Party Competition

    Edited by Judith Bara, Albert Weale ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    This new book introduces innovative research on democracy from the leading Comparative Manifestos Project (CMP).It details the key achievements of the project to date, illustrates how its findings may be applied, lays out the future challenges it faces and examines how the field as a whole can advance. It also presents a special assessment of the dimensionality of party competition, presenting ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Political Theory and the European Union

    Legitimacy, Constitutional Choice and Citizenship

    Edited by Michael Nentwich, Albert Weale ...
    Series series Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science
    The contributors to this book examine the issues of constitutional choice that face the governments and citizens of today's Europe. Divided into three sections this study addresses: questions of political legitimacy and the meaning of democratic deficit in the EU; the reality of what institutional reforms and decision making processes are possible; and the rights of citizenship and values that ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Ronald Dworkin

    Third Edition

    by Stephen Guest ...
    Series series Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory
    Ronald Dworkin is widely accepted as the most important and most controversial Anglo-American jurist of the past forty years. And this same-named volume on his work has become a minor classic in the field, offering the most complete analysis and integration of Dworkin's work to date. This third edition offers a substantial revision of earlier texts and, most importantly, incorporates discussion of ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Human Rights

    Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self ... Read more

    $19.49 USD