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Klappentext This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Zusammenfassung This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Coleman's work has formed a consistent and highly distinguished attempt to find an account of the workings of social and political processes rooted in the rationality of the individual participants. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Collective Decisions: 1. Collective decisions; 2. Beyond Pareto optimality; 3. The possibility of a social welfare function; 4. Social action systems; 5. Why so much stability? Recontracting, trustworthiness and the stability of vote exchanges; 6. Collective decisions in a social system; Part II. Power: 7. Political money; 8. Control of collectivities and the power of a collectivity to act; 9. Constitutional power in experimental health service and delivery systems; 10. Legitimate and illegitimate use of power; 11. Processes of concentration and dispersal of power in social systems; 12. The corporate structure of the economy and its effects on income; Part III. Constitutions: 13. Individual interests and collective action; 14. Inequality, sociology and moral philosophy; 15. Individual rights and the state; 16. Rawls, Nozick and educational equality; Bibliography; Index.
