Research Catalog

Title

Democracy, consensus & social contract / editors, Pierre Birnbaum, Jack Lively, Geraint Parry.

Publication

London ; Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1978.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Birnbaum, Pierre.
• Lively, Jack.
• Parry, Geraint.
• European Consortium for Political Research.

Description

361 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Sage modern politics series ; v. 2

Uniform Title

Sage modern politics series ; v. 2.

Alternative Title

Democracy, consensus, and social contract.

Subjects

• Consensus (Social sciences)
• Democracy
• Social contract

Note

• "Sponsored by the European Consortium for Political Research/ECPR."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

I. Re-appraisals of classic democratic theories -- 1. Notes on a theory of citizenship / Herman van Gunsteren -- 2. Citizenship and knowledge / Geraint Parry -- 3. Comments on some radical critiques of liberal-democratic theory / Graeme Duncan -- 4. Democracy and social justice / David Miller -- 5. The rationality of the 'social treaty' / Pierre Favre -- 6. Social contract and social breakdown / Kenneth R. Minogue -- II: Democracy and consensus today -- 7. Democracy and self-determination / Elias Berg -- 8. Consensus and depoliticisation in contemporary political theory / Pierre Birnbaum -- 9. Pluralism and consensus / Jack Lively -- 10. Ideology: key to power / Uli Windisch -- III: Individual action and collective choice: an evaluation of the new contractarians -- 11. Social contract, community and ideology / John N. Gray -- 12. Public goods and the analytic theory of state / Hannu Nurmi -- 13. Social contract and property rights: a comparison between John Rawls and James M. Buchanan / Percy B. Lehning -- 14. Can a social contract be signed by an invisible hand? / Hillel Steiner -- 15. Individual and collective interests in game theory / Christine Mironesco -- 16. Social contract and the limits of majority rule / Hans Daudt and Douglas W. Rae.

Call Number

JLD 81-815

ISBN

• 0803998821
• 9780803998827
• 080399883X (pbk.)
• 9780803998834 (pbk.)

LCCN

84672989

OCLC

10998351

Title

Democracy, consensus & social contract / editors, Pierre Birnbaum, Jack Lively, Geraint Parry.

Imprint

London ; Beverly Hills : Sage Publications, c1978.

Series

Sage modern politics series ; v. 2

Sage modern politics series ; v. 2.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Birnbaum, Pierre.

Lively, Jack.

Parry, Geraint.

European Consortium for Political Research.

Added Title

Democracy, consensus, and social contract.

Research Call Number

JLD 81-815