This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals will install a ruler only after they create a mechanism to control him. Among the offshoots of the organized protection are legal system and decision-making procedures that inclu...(展开全部)

This book models the emergence of the state, and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals will install a ruler only after they create a mechanism to control him. Among the offshoots of the organized protection are legal system and decision-making procedures that inclu...(展开全部)

John Locke's political theory has been the subject of many detailed treatments by philosophers and political scientists. But "The Lockean Theory of Rights" is the first systematic, full-length study of Locke's theory of rights and of its potential for making genuine contributions to contemporary debates about rights and their place in political philosophy. Given that the rights...(展开全部)

Where do our rights come from? Does "natural law" really exist outside of what is written in constitutions and legal statutes? If so, why are rights not the same everywhere and in all eras? On the other hand, if rights are nothing more than the product of human law, why should we ever allow them to override the popular will? In Rights from Wrongs , renowned legal scholar Al...(展开全部)

艾伦•德肖维茨，美国著名法学家。在辛普森杀妻案、克林顿绊闻案与弹劾案、泰森案等一系列备受瞩目的案件中担任辩护律师，同时也是专栏作家、演说家、书评家与畅销书作家，知名度遍及世界，被誉为「当代最伟大的人权律师」。代表作包括《最好的辩护》《大法官的偏见》《性的麦卡锡主义》《法律创世记》《虐待的藉口》《致年轻律师的信》。

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.</p> Some accounts of democracy's purposes fo...(展开全部)

Leading economists address the ongoing challenges to economics in theory and practice in a time of political and economic crises. More than a decade of financial crises, sovereign debt problems, political conflict, and rising xenophobia and protectionism has left the global economy unsettled and the ability of economics as a discipline to account for episodes of volatility unce...(展开全部)

The concept of a right is fundamental to moral, political, and legal thinking, but much of the use of that concept is selective and fragmentary: it is common merely to appeal to this or that intuitively plausible attribution of rights as needed for purposes of argument. In The Realm of Rights Judith Thomson provides a full-scale, systematic theory of human and social rights, br...(展开全部)

This book presents a valuable clarification and defence of human rights by Italy's leading political theorist.