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The L.I.E. by Brian Barrie 9780228808022
Booksplease Price: £17.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228808022Author Brian BarrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell... -
Evil and Moral Psychology by Peter Brian Barry
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £53.80This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion,... -
The Fiction of Evil Peter Brian Barry 9781138807785
Booksplease Price: £55.68What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take... -
Why Social Justice Matters by Brian Barry
Booksplease Price: £24.63In the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power. At the same time, the idea of social justice itself has been... -
Sociologists, Economists and Democracy by Brian Barry 9780226038247
Booksplease Price: £28.55"Rationalist theories of political behavior have recently risen in status to that of a new-or, more accurately, rediscovered-paradigm in the systematic study of politics. Brian Barry's short,... -
Political Argument (Routledge Revivals) Brian Barry 9780415610827
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £52.94Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of... -
Why Social Justice Matters by Brian Barry 9780745629926
Booksplease Price: £61.35In the past twenty years, social injustice has increased enormously in Britain and the United States, regardless of the party in power. At the same time, the idea of social justice itself has been... -
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... -
George Orwell: The Ethics of Equality by Peter Brian Barry 9780197627402
Booksplease Price: £22.58George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who... -
Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism by Brian Barry 9780745622286
Booksplease Price: £27.40All major western countries today contain groups that differ in their religious beliefs, customary practices or ideas about the right way in which to live. How should public policy respond to this... -
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... -
Justice as Impartiality: A Treatise on Social Justice, Volume II by Brian Barry 9780198290926
RRP: £83.00Booksplease Price: £69.54Almost every country today contains adherents of different religions and different secular conceptions of the good life. Is there any alternative to a power struggle among them, leading most probably... -
Justice as Impartiality: A Treatise on Social Justice, Volume II by Brian Barry 9780198279136
RRP: £132.50Booksplease Price: £109.33Almost every country today contains adherents of different religions and different secular conceptions of the good life. Is there any alternative to a power struggle among them, leading most probably... -
Four Bullets, Four Witnesses, Four Liars: The True Story of a Murder and the Trial That Followed by Brian Barrie 9781552217016
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective by Bo Rothstein 9780226729572
Booksplease Price: £30.43The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing... -
The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International Perspective by Bo Rothstein
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.90The relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing... -
How Judges Judge: Empirical Insights into Judicial Decision-Making by Brian M. Barry 9780367609825
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £33.53A judge's role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of... -
Pluralism in Political Analysis Francis A. O'Connell 9780202363639
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37The theory of democratic pluralism has long provided the dominant ideal and description of politics in industrial societies with competing party systems. The purpose of this classic collection,... -
Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £57.50Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on the Old Left who would... -
Multiculturalism Reconsidered: 'Culture and Equality' and its Critics by Paul Kelly 9780745627946
Booksplease Price: £20.70Can multiculturalists be egalitarians and should egalitarians be multiculturalists? Is the absence of cultural recognition an injustice in the same way as the absence of individual rights or basic... -
In the Shadow of Justice: Postwar Liberalism and the Remaking of Political Philosophy by Katrina Forrester
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £17.18A bold new history of postwar political philosophy and of how John Rawls transformed modern liberalismIn the Shadow of Justice tells the story of how liberal political philosophy was transformed in... -
Civil Society and Government by Nancy L. Rosenblum
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.14Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society... -
Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory by Charles R. Beitz
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.55The description for this book, Political Equality: An Essay in Democratic Theory, will be forthcoming.... Beitz believes it is possible to explain political equality in terms of a deeper moral... -
Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 by Robert Adcock 9780691128740
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.25Since emerging in the late nineteenth century, political science has undergone a radical shift--from constructing grand narratives of national political development to producing empirical studies of... -
Indeterminacy and Society by Russell Hardin 9780691123929
Booksplease Price: £33.48In simple action theory, when people choose between courses of action, they know what the outcome will be. When an individual is making a choice "against nature," such as switching on a light, that... -
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 166, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, IX by Prof. Ron Johnston 9780197264751
Booksplease Price: £77.60Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Brian Barry; Michael Baxandall; Robert Black; Henry Chadwick; Nicolas Coldstream; Howard Colvin; Mary Douglas; Robin Du Boulay;... -
Interaction Models: Specification and Interpretation by William Roberts Clark 9781108404082
RRP: £39.99Booksplease Price: £35.76The radical interdependence between humans who live together makes virtually all human behavior conditional. The behavior of individuals is conditional upon the expectations of those around them, and... -
Liberalism by Paul Kelly 9780745632902
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Liberalism is an innovative introductory textbook exploring the dominant discourse of contemporary political theory and the core ideas that underpin it. Despite the ubiquity of liberalism there... -
Rational Choice by Andrew Hindmoor 9781137427410
Booksplease Price: £44.76Assuming no prior knowledge, this widely-used and critically-acclaimed text provides a clear introduction to, and uniquely fair-minded assessment of, Rational Choice approaches. The substantially... -
Piercing the Shroud: Destabilizations of 'Evil' by Rallie Murray 9789004384538
Booksplease Price: £83.88Our world has become inundated with images of a reality in which 'evil' thrives, and 'good' seems to be a naive, utopian fantasy. 'Good' is reserved for superheroes and children's stories, while the... -
Liberalism by Paul Kelly 9780745632919
Booksplease Price: £17.19Liberalism is an innovative introductory textbook exploring the dominant discourse of contemporary political theory and the core ideas that underpin it. Despite the ubiquity of liberalism there... -
Multiculturalism: A Critical Introduction Michael Murphy 9780415260435
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £47.80What is multiculturalism and what are the different theories used to justify it? Are multicultural policies a threat to liberty and equality? Can liberal democracies accommodate minority groups... -
The Ideal of Equality by Matthew Clayton 9780333971192
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £56.12One of the central debates within contemporary Anglo-American political philosophy concerns how to formulate an egalitarian theory of distributive justice which gives coherent expression to... -
Democracy's Values by Ian Shapiro 9780521643887
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.35Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics are all... -
Referendums and Democratic Government: Normative Theory and the Analysis of Institutions by Maija Setala 9780333761168
Booksplease Price: £90.56Referendums and Democratic Government is the most systematic analysis of the referendum so far. The referendum phenomenon is approached from different perspectives: social choice theory, theories of... -
Referendums and Democratic Government: Normative Theory and the Analysis of Institutions by Maija Setala 9780312221010
Booksplease Price: £90.56Referendums and Democratic Government is the most systematic analysis of the referendum so far. The referendum phenomenon is approached from different perspectives: social choice theory, theories of... -
Politics of Last Resort: Governing by Emergency in the European Union by Jonathan White 9780198791720
RRP: £98.00Booksplease Price: £73.97Prominent in the EU's recent transformations has been the tendency to advance extraordinary measures in the name of crisis response. From emergency lending to macro-economics, border management to... -
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... -
Democracy, Equality, and Justice by Matt Matravers 9781138874831
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate... -
Theories of Multiculturalism: An Introduction by George Crowder
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.05Multiculturalism is one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics. In this new book George Crowder examines some of the leading responses to multiculturalism, both supportive and...