Power, Luck and Freedom - Collected Essays

Informationen zum Autor Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: power, luck and freedom Part I: Power 1. Why should we care about the definition of power?2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships3. Rational choice and community power structures4. 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 freedomsIndex

Product details

• Authors: Keith Dowding, Keith M. Dowding, Dowding Keith
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.10.2016
• EAN: 9781526107282
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0728-2
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Social and Political Power Mup; Social and Political Power
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Essays, English, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Essays, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Literary essays, Political science and theory