When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy, welfare provision, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent and the limits of religious toleration? The most familiar answer is that these decisions should be made demo...(展开全部)

When people disagree about justice and about individual rights, how should political decisions be made among them? How should they decide about issues like tax policy, welfare provision, criminal procedure, discrimination law, hate speech, pornography, political dissent and the limits of religious toleration? The most familiar answer is that these decisions should be made democ...(展开全部)

“Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancière brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and “the end of politics.” What precisely is at stake in the relationship between “philosophy” and the adjective “political”?...(展开全部)

“Is there any such thing as political philosophy?” So begins this provocative book by one of the foremost figures in Continental thought. Here, Jacques Rancière brings a new and highly useful set of terms to the vexed debate about political effectiveness and “the end of politics.” What precisely is at stake in the relationship between “philosophy” and the adjective “political”?...(展开全部)

"...sweeping in its thematic scope. All should be stimulated by the theoretical debate. Recommended." C.H. Blake, James Madison University, CHOICE "Anyone interested in the origins of democracy or in contemporary political economy will need to read this important work." Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University

"...sweeping in its thematic scope. All should be stimulated by the theoretical debate. Recommended." C.H. Blake, James Madison University, CHOICE "Anyone interested in the origins of democracy or in contemporary political economy will need to read this important work." Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University

卡莱斯·鲍什，现为普林斯顿大学公共事务与公共管理学教授、美国人文与科学学院院士、古根海姆学者，从事政治经济学与经验政治学领域的教学和科研工作。 鲍针教授的著作《政治党派、经济增长与平等》（剑桥大学出版社，1998年）获得威廉·赖克（William:H.Riker）政治经济学最佳专著奖。他的著作《民主与再分配》（剑桥大学出版社，2003年）同样获得威廉·赖克(William:H.Riker)政治经济学最佳专著奖以及马太·杜干（Mattei Dogan）比较研究领域最佳专著奖。他曾在American Political Science Review,American Journal of Political Science,World Politics,International Organization,Journal of Law,Econ...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human development and the historical evolution of whole societies. They examine in deta...(展开全部)

Dietrich Rueschemeyer is a Brown professor of sociology emeritus and Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. '32 Professor of International Studies emeritus. He currently works on state formation and historical antecedents of socioeconomic development.He was one of the founders of Brown's Center for the Comparative Study of Development, which merged into the Watson Institute. From 1997 to 2...(展开全部)