This powerfully argued appraisal of judicial review may change the face of American law. Written for layman and scholar alike, the book addresses one of the most important issues facing Americans today: within what guidelines shall the Supreme Court apply the strictures of the Constitution to the complexities of modern life?

According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit...(展开全部)

According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit...(展开全部)

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)

In "Between Facts and Norms" Ja1/4rgen Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his "Theory of Communicative Action" (1981), bringing to fruition the project announced with his publication of "The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere" in 1962. This new work is a major contribution to recent debates on the rule of law and the possibilities of democrac...(展开全部)

In Between Facts and Norms Habermas works out the legal and political implications of his theoretical approach, bringing to fruition the project announced more than three decades ago in The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. Between Facts and Norms is a major contribution to current debates on the role of law and the prospects for the development of democracy in co...(展开全部)

This is the first in a series of books in which one of the most influential of contemporary art theorists revised from within the conceptions underlying the history of art. The author's basic idea is that the rigor of linear perspective cannot encompass all of visual experience and that it could be said to generate an oppositional factor with which it interacts dialectically: t...(展开全部)

简介：If you don't like pregnant, don't watch it.

In this major new book John A. Hawkins presents a new theory of linear ordering in syntax. He argues that processing can provide a simple, functional explanation for syntactic rules of ordering, as well as for the selection among ordering variants in languages and structures in which variation is possible. Insights from generative syntax, typological studies of language univers...(展开全部)

菲利普•佩迪特（Philip Noel Pettit），1945年出生于爱尔兰，曾长期任教于澳大利亚国立大学，拥有爱尔兰和澳大利亚双重国籍；当代著名社会理论家，享有多种学术荣誉并担任多种学术职务，现为美国普林斯顿大学威廉•尼尔森•克伦威尔政治学教授（William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics）；其主要著作包括：《判断正义》（Judging Justice，1980）、《不仅仅是惩罚》（Not Just Deserts，合著，1990）、《罗尔斯》（Rawls，合著，1990）、《大众的心智》（The Common Mind，1993）、《共和主义》（Republicanism，1997/平装本，1999）、《伦理学的三种方法》（Three Methods of Ethics，合著，1997）、《一种自由...(展开全部)