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

Collection of essays in political science, applied specifically to future problems of democracy