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Securities against Misrule: Juries, Assemblies, Elections by Jon Elster 9781107031739
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £71.39Elster proposes a normative theory of collective decision making, inspired by Jeremy Bentham but not including his utilitarian philosophy. The central proposal is that in designing democratic... -
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea by Jon Elster
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy... -
Rationality, Democracy, and Justice: The Legacy of Jon Elster by Claudio Lopez-Guerra 9781107065239
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.56This volume advances the research agenda of one of the most remarkable political thinkers of our time: Jon Elster. With an impressive list of contributors, it features studies in five topics in... -
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.08In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised... -
Explaining Technical Change: A Case Study in the Philosophy of Science by Jon Elster 9780521270724
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the evolution of intelligent life on earth, comparable to that of... -
Explaining Social Behavior: More Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences by Jon Elster 9781107071186
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £80.93In this new edition of his critically acclaimed book, Jon Elster examines the nature of social behavior, proposing choice as the central concept of the social sciences. Extensively revised... -
Institutional Design in Post-Communist Societies: Rebuilding the Ship at Sea by Jon Elster 9780521473866
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £95.30The authors of this book have developed a new and stimulating approach to the analysis of the transitions of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia to democracy and a market economy... -
Resurrecting Marx: Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom and Justice by David Gordon 9780887383908
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £107.03The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In... -
Marxism And The Moral Point Of View: Morality, Ideology, And Historical Materialism by Kai Nielsen
RRP: £145.00Booksplease Price: £127.53Marxism and the Moral Point of View attempts to say what consistent Marxists working within the parameters of the canonical conceptions of Marxism should say about morality. This includes what they... -
Marxism And The Moral Point Of View: Morality, Ideology, And Historical Materialism by Kai Nielsen 9780367155551
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37Marxism and the Moral Point of View attempts to say what consistent Marxists working within the parameters of the canonical conceptions of Marxism should say about morality. This includes what they... -
Finding Oneself in the Other by G. A. Cohen 9780691148816
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.25This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume... -
The Necessity Of Friction by Nordal Akerman
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.51Friction is what keeps us from realizing our goals. It is what compromises all of our plans, sometimes making them unrecognizable. It defies our wish for perfection and constantly surprises us with... -
Exploitation by Alan Wertheimer
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £41.90What is the basis for arguing that a volunteer army exploits citizens who lack civilian career opportunities? How do we determine that a doctor who has sex with his patients is exploiting them? In... -
Finding Oneself in the Other by G. A. Cohen 9780691148809
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £78.62This is the second of three volumes of posthumously collected writings of G. A. Cohen, who was one of the leading, and most progressive, figures in contemporary political philosophy. This volume... -
Motivated Irrationality by David Pears 9781890318413
Booksplease Price: £37.52A study of how reason can be influenced by wishful thinking and how it shapes a person's outlook on life as well as their behaviour.Reviews"It is invevitable that a book of this scope and ambition... -
Reputation: What It Is and Why It Matters by Gloria Origgi 9780691175355
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.19A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary life Reputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded... -
Reputation: What It Is and Why It Matters by Gloria Origgi
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.08A compelling exploration of how reputation affects every aspect of contemporary lifeReputation touches almost everything, guiding our behavior and choices in countless ways. But it is also shrouded... -
Lectures on the History of Moral and Political Philosophy by Jonathan Wolff 9780691149004
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.85G. A. Cohen was one of the leading political philosophers of recent times. He first came to wide attention in 1978 with the prize-winning book Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence. In subsequent... -
Economics and Sociology: Redefining Their Boundaries: Conversations with Economists and Sociologists by Richard Swedberg
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £61.80The boundary between economics and sociology is presently being redefined--but how, why, and by whom? Richard Swedberg answers these questions in this thought-provoking book of conversations with... -
Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry by Keith Dowding 9780521545433
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35'Justice' and 'democracy' have alternated as dominant themes in political philosophy over the last fifty years. Since its revival in the middle of the twentieth century, political philosophy has... -
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Grethe B. Peterson 9780521176392
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £35.67The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is the annual publication of the Tanner lectures given at Clare Hall, Cambridge University; Brasenose College, Oxford University; Harvard University; Yale... -
Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry by Keith M. Dowding 9780521836951
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £85.26'Justice' and 'democracy' have alternated as dominant themes in political philosophy over the last fifty years. Since its revival in the middle of the twentieth century, political philosophy has... -
Resurrecting Marx: Analytical Marxists on Exploitation, Freedom and Justice by David Gordon
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The last two decades have seen Marxism's academic renascence. In fields as diverse as law, literary criticism, history, and philosophy, Marxism once again captivates no small number of scholars. In... -
The Egalitarian Conscience: Essays in Honour of G. A. Cohen by Christine Sypnowich 9780199281688
RRP: £135.00Booksplease Price: £111.56The Egalitarian Conscience pays tribute to the highly influential work of Professor G. A. Cohen. Professor Cohen is a philosopher of international stature and tremendous achievement, who has been... -
Analytical Marxism: A Critique by Marcus Roberts 9781859841167
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.13In the 1980s, leading philosophers at Oxford, Chicago and UCLA undertook a controversial reassessment of Marxism using the techniques of analytical philosophy. The aim of these so-called... -
Individualism: Theories and Methods by Pierre Birnbaum 9780198273240
Booksplease Price: £53.79In recent years the ability of holistic social theories to account for the rights, duties, even the reality, of the individual have been called into question more and more. At the same time, interest... -
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Taking the Naturalistic Turn, or, How Real Philosophy of Science is Done: Conversations with William Bechtel ... [et al.] by Werner Callebaut
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £44.79Philosophers of science traditionally have ignored the details of scientific research, and the result has often been theories that lack relevance either to science or to philosophy in general. In... -
Literature and Rationality: Ideas of Agency in Theory and Fiction by Paisley Livingston 9780521064804
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35This interdisciplinary study establishes connections between divergent approaches to rationality in philosophy, social science, and literary studies. Livingston provides a broad survey of the basic... -
The Scientific Marx by Daniel Little 9780816615056
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.08The Scientific Marx was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original... -
Can It Happen Here?: Authoritarianism in America by Cass Sunstein 9780062696199
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.78Can authoritarianism happen in the United States of America? Is freedom really secure? Acclaimed legal scholar, Harvard Professor, and New York Times bestselling author Cass R. Sunstein offers... -
Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State by Ian Shapiro 9780814740569
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £26.12Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal... -
Rethinking Political Institutions: The Art of the State by Ian Shapiro 9780814740262
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.89Institutions shape every dimension of politics. This volume collects original essays on how such institutions are formed, operated, and changed, both in theory and in practice. Ranging across formal... -
Political Theory Today by David Held 9780804718981
Booksplease Price: £26.98What is the proper subject matter for political theory? Uncertainty about the most appropriate way of answering these questions provides the key rationales for this volume: to provide a comprehensive... -
Transitional Justice: NOMOS LI by Rosemary Nagy
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.61Criminal tribunals, truth commissions, reparations, apologies and memorializations are the characteristic instruments in the transitional justice toolkit that can help societies transition from... -
Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy by David Austen-Smith 9780521714853
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.08Michael Wallerstein was a leader in developing a rigorous comparative political economy approach to understanding substantive issues of inequality, redistribution, and wage-determination. His early... -
The Politics of Pact-Making: Hungary's Negotiated Transition to Democracy in Comparative Perspective by John Schiemann 9781403971098
Booksplease Price: £46.74Contributing to the literature on democratic transitions and with a focus on institutional bargaining, in this fascinating book the Hungarian case is contrasted with those of Poland, South Africa and... -
Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy by David Austen-Smith 9780521886888
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.44Michael Wallerstein was a leader in developing a rigorous comparative political economy approach to understanding substantive issues of inequality, redistribution, and wage-determination. His early... -
Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference, and Legitimacy: Theoretical Perspectives by Michel Rosenfeld
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in... -
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Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference, and Legitimacy: Theoretical Perspectives by Michel Rosenfeld 9780822315056 [USED COPY]
RRP: £104.00Booksplease Price: £10.40Interest in constitutionalism and in the relationship among constitutions, national identity, and ethnic, religious, and cultural diversity has soared since the collapse of socialist regimes in... -
The EU, NATO and the Integration of Europe: Rules and Rhetoric by Frank Schimmelfennig 9780521535250
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Why did Western European states agree to the enlargement of the EU and NATO? Frank Schimmelfennig analyzes the history of the enlargement process and develops a theoretical approach of 'rhetorical...