Keith Dowding

Power, luck and freedom

Collected essays

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. Power luck and freedom is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 637g
• ISBN-13: 9781526107282
• ISBN-10: 1526107287
• Artikelnr.: 46605666

Autorenporträt

Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: power, luck and freedom Part I: Power 1. Why should we care
about the definition of power? 2. Agency and structure: interpreting power
relationships 3. Rational choice and community power structures 4. Power,
capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacy Part II: Luck
5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry 6. Shaping
future luck 7. Luck, equality and responsibility 8. Luck and leadership
Part III: Freedom 9. Choice: its increase and its value 10. The value of
choice in public policy 11. Republican freedom, rights and the coalition
problem 12. The construction of rights 13. Social choice and the grammar of
rights and freedoms Index