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Constitution, Democracy And State Power |
Edited by Joshua Cohen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US and Archon Fung, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, US
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| 1996 |
2,144 pp |
Hardback |
978 1 85278 342 6 |
£540.00 |
on-line discount
£486.00 |
Four volume set |
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‘Contemporary political theorists and political scientists have good reasons to compliment Cohen and Fung on compiling this extremely useful and thought provoking set of volumes.’
– Vittorio Bufacchi, Yale University, US
A just society guarantees its members rights to basic civil liberties; it protects the political liberties associated with democratic governance (rights of suffrage, association, and political speech), while ensuring state accountability and responsiveness to citizens; it distributes fairly the resources required for exercising civil and political liberties; and it promotes the general welfare. Despite broad agreement on these abstract requirements, the conditions that foster justice, thus understood, are a matter of long-standing controversy in political theory.
This important collection addresses these controversies with over fifty articles on basic political institutions such as the rule of law, judicial review, federalism, separation of powers, freedom of speech, elections and parties, direct democracy, organized social groups, and administrative agencies.
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56 articles, dating from 1921 to 1992
Contents: Volume I: Acknowledgements Part I: The Rule of Law Part II: Protecting Rights Through Judical Review Part III: Federalism and The Separation of Powers Index • Volume II: Acknowledgements Part I: Freedom of Speech as an Instrument of Democracy Part II: Voting, Parties, and Popular Control of Government Index • Volume III: Acknowledgements Part I: Direct Democracy Part II: Group Politics and Democratic Governance Index • Volume IV: Acknowledgements Part I: Democracy, and Administrative Power Part II: Constitutionalism, Democracy and War Powers Part III: Beyond the State Index
Contributors include: N. Bobbio, R.A. Dahl, R. Dworkin, H.L.A. Hart, Friedrich A. von Hayek, J.J. Linz, C. McKinnon, W.H. Riker, F.W. Scharpf, P. C. Schmitter
View the author's website at
http://www.archonfung.edu
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