Political protest is often at least partially about the question of legitimacy. How can we distinguish whether a regime is legitimate, or merely purports to be so? In Facing Authority, Thomas Fossen develops a new philosophical approach to political legitimacy, interweaving analyses of key concepts (including representation, identity, and temporality) with examples of real-life...(展开全部)

This book offers a major new theory of global governance, explaining both its rise and what many see as its current crisis. The author suggests that world politics is now embedded in a normative and institutional structure dominated by hierarchies and power inequalities and therefore inherently creates contestation, resistance, and distributional struggles. Within an ambitious ...(展开全部)

作者简介 乔治•霍兰•萨拜因 (George Holland Sabine)，1880年出生于美国俄亥俄州迭顿城，1903年入康奈尔大学，1906年获博士学位。在斯坦福、康奈尔以及其他一些美国大学里任教，并为美国哲学协会、政治学协会的会员。作为“历史主义学派”的主要倡导者，在美国学术界享有盛誉。 修订者简介： 托马斯•兰敦•索尔森（Thomas Landon Thorson），1934年生于美国印第安纳州的拉博特，1956年入印第安纳大学，1960年获普林斯顿大学的博士学位，后在加拿大多伦多大学政治经济系任教，为西方政治哲学界的后起之秀。 译者简介： 邓正来，受聘于国内多所高校。曾任吉林大学法学院教授，博士生导师，吉林大学理论法学研究中心西方法哲学研究所所长，现任复旦大学社会科学高等研究院院长，复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院教授、博导。创办并主编《中...(展开全部)

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the ...(展开全部)

Zoopolis offers a new agenda for the theory and practice of animal rights. Most animal rights theory focuses on the intrinsic capacities or interests of animals, and the moral status and moral rights that these intrinsic characteristics give rise to. Zoopolis shifts the debate from the realm of moral theory and applied ethics to the realm of political theory, focusing on the re...(展开全部)

威廉‧瑞克（William H. Riker, 1920-1993） 1920年生於美國愛荷華州，1942年於印第安那州迪堡大學（DePauw University）取得經濟學學士學位，並於1948年於哈佛大學政治系取得博士學位。1962年，在擔任威斯康辛州的勞倫斯大學（Lawrence College）教授時，他發表了《政治聯盟理論》一書，同年成為羅徹斯特大學（University of Rochester）政治系主任直到1977年為止。 威廉‧瑞克創立的「實證政治學」（positive political theory）給學界帶來了典範革命，他從社會選擇與賽局理論的啟發中，建立影響深遠的「理性選擇學派」（Rational Choice Theory，又稱羅徹斯特學派），徹底改變了二十世紀政治學研究的風貌。他所建構的「新政治經濟學」（modern ...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1871, The Theory of Political Economy was the first text to introduce the concept of utility theory into economics and the use of calculus as a way to simplify and present economic problems. In this classic work Jevons re-formulated the central problem of economics as one of how to maximise overall utility with a set amount of means of production. Utilit...(展开全部)