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On Settling by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $31.19In 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... -
On Settling Robert E. Goodin 9780691148458
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.44In 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... -
Consent Matters by Robert E. Goodin 9780192889027
RRP: $108.36Booksplease Price: $99.23Consent 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... -
Reflective Democracy by Robert E. Goodin 9780199279746
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $57.56Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to... -
Reflective Democracy by Robert E. Goodin 9780199256174
Booksplease Price: $60.88Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to... -
The Oxford Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin
Booksplease Price: $52.64Drawing 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... -
Green Political Theory by Robert E. Goodin 9780745610276
Booksplease Price: $26.70With 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... -
What's Wrong With Terrorism? by Robert E. Goodin 9780745634975
Booksplease Price: $72.41Terrorists 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... -
No Smoking: The Ethical Issues Robert E. Goodin 9780226303017
Booksplease Price: $16.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226303017Author Robert E. GoodinFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint University of Chicago... -
The Theory of Institutional Design by Robert E. Goodin 9780521636438
Booksplease Price: $41.43Problems of institutional design and redesign, structuring and restructuring, acquired particular poignancy through recent developments from eastern Europe to southern Africa. At the same time,... -
Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy by Robert E. Goodin 9780521468060
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $53.30Utilitarianism, the great reforming philosophy of the nineteenth century, has today acquired the reputation for being a crassly calculating, impersonal philosophy unfit to serve as a guide to moral... -
Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy by Robert E. Goodin 9780521462631
RRP: $113.52Booksplease Price: $108.09Utilitarianism, the great reforming philosophy of the nineteenth century, has today acquired the reputation for being a crassly calculating, impersonal philosophy unfit to serve as a guide to moral... -
The Theory of Institutional Design by Robert E. Goodin 9780521471190
RRP: $123.83Booksplease Price: $118.37Problems of institutional design and redesign, structuring and restructuring, acquired particular poignancy through recent developments from eastern Europe to southern Africa. At the same time,... -
Political Theory Without Borders by Robert E. Goodin 9781119110088
RRP: $112.17Booksplease Price: $96.13POLITICAL THEORY WITHOUT BORDERS Political theory has traditionally focused on governance within the confines of a specific polity, but with the recent proliferation of environmental realities and... -
Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $39.67A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms... -
Political Theory and Public Policy by Robert E. Goodin 9780226302973
Booksplease Price: $39.25Some say that public policy can be made without the benefit of theory-that it emerges, instead, through trial-and-error. Others see genuine philosophical issues in public affairs but try to resolve... -
The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert E. Goodin 9780521593861
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $89.81The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through a unique analysis of panel data from Germany, the... -
A New Handbook of Political Science by Robert E. Goodin 9780198294719
Booksplease Price: $128.65The New Handbook of Political Science is an authoritative survey of developments in the discipline compiled by 42 of the most famous political scientists worldwide, analysing progress over the past... -
Perpetuating Advantage: Mechanisms of Structural Injustice by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: $41.91Booksplease Price: $37.64Injustices 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... -
The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism by Robert E. Goodin 9780521596398
RRP: $49.02Booksplease Price: $48.30The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state. Through a unique analysis of panel data from Germany, the... -
Protecting the Vulnerable: A Reanalysis of Our Social Responsibilities by Robert E. Goodin
Booksplease Price: $36.83Our narrower obligations often blind us to larger social responsibilities. The moral claims arising out of special relationships-family, friends, colleagues, and so on-always seem to take priority... -
Discretionary Time: A New Measure of Freedom by Robert E. Goodin 9780521882989
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $84.10A healthy work-life balance has become increasingly important to people trying to cope with the pressures of contemporary society. This trend highlights the fallacy of assessing well-being in terms... -
Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State by Robert E. Goodin
RRP: $92.88Booksplease Price: $74.18Robert 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... -
The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis by Robert E. Goodin 9780199548446
RRP: $47.72Booksplease Price: $46.47The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis sets out to synthesize and critique for the first time those approaches to political science that offer a more fine-grained qualitative analysis... -
Motivating Political Morality Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University) 9781557863324
RRP: $56.70Booksplease Price: $53.37Knowing what is the right thing to do is one thing. bringing yourself to do it is often quite another. This book is addressed to those who ask, 'Why should I be moral?' It explores strategies and... -
Not Only the Poor: The Middle Classes and the Welfare State Robert E Goodin 9781138598638
RRP: $46.43Booksplease Price: $42.43Originally published in 1987 Not Only the Poor explores the self-interested involvement of the non-poor in the welfare state, particularly the middle class. Using evidence from Britain, America, and... -
What's Wrong With Terrorism? Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University) 9780745634982
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89Terrorists 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... -
Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University) 9781119154167
RRP: $63.15Booksplease Price: $58.77The 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 volume... -
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University) 9780631199519
RRP: $50.25Booksplease Price: $48.92An essential reference for anyone interested in this dynamic field, the new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy is the most current and comprehensive resource available... -
Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn by Robert E. Goodin 9780199547944
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $92.94In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a... -
Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn by Robert E. Goodin 9780199650552
RRP: $58.68Booksplease Price: $44.71In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a... -
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy Robert E. Goodin (Australian National University, Australia) 9781444350876
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $46.71This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars... -
Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry by Keith Dowding 9780521545433
Booksplease Price: $41.43'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 and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry by Keith M. Dowding 9780521836951
RRP: $121.26Booksplease Price: $115.70'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... -
Taming Globalization: Frontiers of Governance David Held (London School of Economic and Political Science) 9780745630779
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $20.89In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integration. They assess the benefits and the costs of... -
Taming Globalization: Frontiers of Governance by David Held 9780745630762
Booksplease Price: $72.41In this volume some of the world's leading analysts of globalization discuss the economic, political and ethical implications of global economic integration. They assess the benefits and the costs of... -
Population and Political Theory by James S. Fishkin
Booksplease Price: $41.32Part of the acclaimed Politics and Society series, Population and Political Theory brings together leading thinkers in the fields of philosophy, political science, economics, and social policy to... -
The Terms of Democracy by Michael Saward 9780745619903
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27The Terms of Democracy shows how democracy makes radical demands upon political leaders and citizens alike. By setting out the terms of democracy in a fresh and systematic way, Michael Saward... -
The Terms of Democracy Michael Saward (The Open University; University of London) 9780745619910
Booksplease Price: $25.62The Terms of Democracy shows how democracy makes radical demands upon political leaders and citizens alike. By setting out the terms of democracy in a fresh and systematic way, Michael Saward... -
Three Methods of Ethics: A Debate by Marcia W. Baron 9780631194354
RRP: $48.96Booksplease Price: $46.78During the past decade ethical theory has been in a lively state of development, and three basic approaches to ethics - Kantian ethics, consequentialism, and virtue ethics - have assumed positions of...