Democratic theory: essays in retrieval (Record no. 14621)
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| fixed length control field | 02373cam a2200205 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0198271875 |
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| ISBN | 9780198271871 |
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| ISBN | 0198271891 |
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| ISBN | 9780198271895 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | JC423 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Macpherson, C. B. |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Democratic theory: essays in retrieval |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | [by] C.B. Macpherson |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | GREAT BRITAIN |
| Name of publisher | CLARENDON PRESS. OXFORD |
| Year of publication or production | 1979 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xii, 255 pages |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | I : Democracy and property the twentieth century and after : 1. The maximization of democracy -- 2. Democratic theory: ontology and technology : The race between ontology and technology ; Western democratic ontology: the individualist base ; Western democratic ontology: the egalitarian complement ; Technology, scarcity, and democracy -- 3. Problems of a non-market theory of democracy : Two concepts of power: extractive and developmental ; Power and capacities ; The measurement of powers ; Impediments and their measurements ; The maximization of aggregate powers -- 4. Revisionist liberalism : The lesson of empiricism ; Chapman's revisionist liberalism ; Rawls's distributive justice -- 5. Berlin's division of liberty : Negative liberty ; Positive liberty ; An alternative division of liberty -- 6. A political theory of property : Modern property a product of capitalist society ; Mid-twentieth-century changes in the concept of property ; An impending change in the concept of property ; Beyond property as access to the means of labour -- II : Related papers on the twentieth-century predicament : 7. Elegant tombstones: a note on Friedman's freedom -- 8. Revolution and ideology in the late twentieth century -- 9. Post-liberal-democracy? -- 10. Market concepts in political theory -- 11. The deceptive task of political theory -- III : Seventeenth-century roots of the twentieth-century predicament : 12. Servants and labourers in seventeenth-century England : Seventeenth-century usage re-examined ; The general rule and special cases -- 13. Natural rights in Hobbes and Locke : Introduction ; Natural rights in Hobbes ; Natural rights in Locke ; Hobbes, Locke, and human rights ; The near future of natural rights and human rights -- 14. Hobbes's bourgeois man |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Collection of essays in political science, applied specifically to future problems of democracy |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Democracy |
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| Topical Term | Democracy |
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| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Library of Congress Classification |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Makurdi Study Centre | Makurdi Study Centre | 11/21/2024 | JC423.M33 1979 | 0164443 | Books |