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  • An Epistemic Theory of Democracy

    by Robert E. Goodin, Kai Spiekermann ...
    Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785, when Condorcet published his famous jury theorem. But that theorem has typically been dismissed as little more than a mathematical curiosity, with assumptions too restrictive for it to apply to the real world. In An ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • Perpetuating Advantage

    Mechanisms of Structural Injustice

    by Robert E. Goodin ...
    Injustices are, in the first instance, brute acts of identifiable individuals. But they are typically perpetuated, more subtly, through seemingly innocent workings of innocuous social structures. Critics of structural injustice are quick to call out that ruse. They say much about all the sites where such structural injustices reside - but without saying much, as yet, about how exactly structural ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

    Edited by Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit ...
    Series series Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies
    The revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit’s highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together the field’s most important readings in a single volumeUnparalleled in the breadth and scope of its coverage, this newly-revised third edition traces the evolution of political philosophy as a contemporary practice, and raises important questions about the impact of ... Read more

    $54.00 USD

  • Green Political Theory

    by Robert E. Goodin ...
    With their remarkable electoral successes, Green parties worldwide seized the political imagination of friends and foes alike. Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously than that.This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the green political programme. Goodin shows that green public ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Global Basic Rights

    Edited by Charles R. Beitz, Robert E. Goodin ...
    Politically, as well as philosophically, concerns with human rights have permeated many of the most important debates on social justice worldwide for fully a half-century. Henry Shue's 1980 book on Basic Rights proved to be a pioneering contribution to those debates, and one that continues to elicit both critical and constructive comment. Global Basic Rights brings together many of the most ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • On Settling

    by Robert E. Goodin ...
    The hidden value of settlingIn a culture that worships ceaseless striving, "settling" seems like giving up. But is it? On Settling defends the positive value of settling, explaining why this disdained practice is not only more realistic but more useful than an excessive ideal of striving. In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling—and that even to strive, one must ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • What's Wrong With Terrorism?

    by Robert E. Goodin ...
    Terrorists perform terrible acts. They maim, mutilate and kill in pursuit of their goals. The horrifying events of 9/11 and the regular suicide bombings around the world have made terrorism one of the central preoccupations of the twenty-first century. But what is the distinctive wrong of terrorism? Criminal acts such as murder and hijacking are already on the moral statute books, so why is it ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

    Edited by Robert E. Goodin ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory; political institutions; political behavior; comparative politics; international relations; political economy; law and politics; public policy; contextual ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Political Theory Without Borders

    by Robert E. Goodin, James S. Fishkin ...
    Series series Philosophy, Politics and Society
    POLITICAL THEORY WITHOUT BORDERSPolitical theory has traditionally focused on governance within the confines of a specific polity, but with the recent proliferation of environmental realities and national decisions that have global repercussions, political theory must now be re-imagined to confront globalization head-on. Political Theory Without Borders presents a collection scholarship that does ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Consent Matters

    by Robert E. Goodin ...
    Consent works moral magic. Things that would otherwise be wrong to do to someone are, with that person's consent, made morally permissible. But what is consent, and how does it work? What can be taken for consent (perhaps wrongly) and with what consequences? How does consent come into being and pass out of it? How can consent be conferred, invoked and revoked? What is the role of social and legal ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • The Essential Communitarian Reader

    by Ronald Bayer, Benjamin R. Barber, Daniel A. Bell, Robert N. Bellah, Senator Bill Bradley, Senator Dan Coats, Roger L. Conner, Ralf Dahrendorf, John J. DiIulio Jr., William J. Doherty, Jean Bethke Elshtain0, Amitai Etzioni1, James S. Fishkin3, William Galston4, Mary Ann Glendon5, Robert E. Goodin6, Peter Katz7, Mark Kleiman8, Judith Martin9, Dallin H. Oaks0, Diane Ravitch1, Philip Selznik2, Fred Siegel3, Thomas A. Spragens Jr.4, Charles Taylor5, Daniel J. Tichenor6, Linda J. Waite7, Alan Wolfe8 ...
    Series series Rights & Responsibilities
    This outstanding new book shows why communitarian thought has had such a profound influence on contemporary American public policy, from strengthening our neighborhoods to fighting AIDS and educating our children. Edited by Amitai Etzioni, founder of the Communitarian Network and author of the best-selling books The Spirit of Community and The New Golden Rule, this comprehensive collection ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability

    Edited by Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin, Thomas Schillemans ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Over the past two decades public accountability has become not only an icon in political, managerial, and administrative discourse but also the object of much scholarly analysis across a broad range of social and administrative sciences. This handbook provides a state of the art overview of recent scholarship on public accountability. It collects, consolidates, and integrates an upsurge of inquiry ... Read more

    $43.19 USD