Albert Weale

Modern Social Contract Theory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers an exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780198853541
• ISBN-10: 0198853548
• Artikelnr.: 58699616

Autorenporträt

Albert Weale is Emeritus Professor of Political Theory and Public Policy, University College London. His research has concentrated on issues of political theory and public policy, especially health policy, environmental policy, the theory of justice, and democratic theory. In addition to over one hundred papers and chapters, he has authored, co-authored or co-edited eighteen books. These include, with others, Democratic Justice and the Social Contract (OUP, 2013), Environmental Governance in Europe (OUP, 2000) and the edited volume Risk, Democratic Citizenship, and Public Policy (OUP, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Constructing Contract Theory
1: The Rebirth of Contract Theory
2: The Twilight of Utilitarianism
3: Contractual Constructions
4: Contractual Rationalities
Part II: The Theory of Content
5: Rational Choosers
6: Constitutional Uncertainties
7: Bargained Justice
8: Veiled Deliberation
9: Decent Reasoning
10: Living Together Reasonably
Part III: The Theory of Obligation
11: The Limits of Liberty
12: Constraining Maximization
13: Fairness, Goodness, Reasonableness
14: Grounding Obligations
15: Justification to Others
Part IV: The Progress of Contract Theory
16: Contractual Reconstructions
17: Social Contract as Domination
18: A Method of Ethics?
19: Contractual Constitutions