Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists justify civic obligations only by reaching beyond liberal principles and invokin...(展开全部)

Many political theorists today deny that citizenship can be defended on liberal grounds alone. Cosmopolitans claim that loyalty to a particular state is incompatible with universal liberal principles, which hold that we have equal duties of justice to persons everywhere, while nationalist theorists justify civic obligations only by reaching beyond liberal principles and invokin...(展开全部)

Certain to become the most important work in political theory since John Rawls's A Theory of Justice, this book presents a brilliantly original, compelling vision of a just society-a world in which each of us may live his own life in his own way without denying the same right to others. Full of provocative discussions of issues ranging from education to abortion, it makes fasci...(展开全部)

Social Justice in the Liberal State [1] is a book written by Bruce A. Ackerman, recipient of the French Order of Merit, [2] Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. [3] The book is an essay in political philosophy, [2] a "new view" of t...(展开全部)

帕特里克·邓利维(Patrick Dunleavy)教授就职于伦敦政治经济学院(London School of Economics and Political Science)及伦敦社会科学院(The Academy of the Social Science，London)，任政治学及公共政策学的教授。他撰写过数部政治学的专著和学术文章，并兼任《政治研究》(Political Studies)期刊的主编。 20多年来，帕特里克教授在伦敦政治经济学院指导过30多位博士生，并教授一门关于如何起草及撰写博士论文的跨学科的大型课程长达十余年之久。本书由帕特里克教授根据自己在多年指导学生及执教过程中所积累的丰富经验编纂而成。 布伦登·奥利里(Brendan O’Leary)是美国宾夕法尼亚大学社会科学的教授以及所罗门·阿施中心主任。

The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands. In turn, leaders attempt to use their authority over the state to manage bureaucrats in a way that induces bureaucratic beha...(展开全部)

The administrative state is a powerful tool because it can control the population and, in moments of crisis, help leaders put down popular threats to their rule. But a state does not act; bureaucrats work through the state to carry out a leader's demands. In turn, leaders attempt to use their authority over the state to manage bureaucrats in a way that induces bureaucratic beha...(展开全部)

Is there a moment in history when a work receives its ideal interpretation? Or is negotiation always required to preserve the past and accommodate the present? The freedom of interpretation, Charles Rosen suggests in these sparkling explorations of music and literature, exists in a delicate balance with fidelity to the identity of the original work. Rosen cautions us to avoid d...(展开全部)

The greatest obstacle to rule of law in our time, contends the author of this thought-provoking work, is the problem of overlegislation. In modern democratic societies, legislative bodies are increasingly usurping functions that were and should be exercised by individuals or groups rather than government. The result is an unwieldy surfeit of laws and regulations that by their s...(展开全部)