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This volume presents a set of new essays by leading economists, philosophers and political scientists concerned with the normative underpinnings of the state. "The Good Polity" is devoted to the analysis of detailed substantive issues arising within the normative theory of the state rather than with the exegesis of received views or the polemical statement of alternative positions. The essays are grouped around the themes of democracy, contract and compliance, and the responsibility of the state. Each author provides a detailed and freestanding examination of one aspect of the normative analysis of the state, and the resulting collection clearly displays the growing interaction between academic disciplines. The editors provide an introduction which sets out the analytic prerequisites for the normative theory of the state. The contributors are: Geoffrey Brennan, Joshua Cohen, Partha Dasgupta, Robert Goodin, Alan Hamlin, Russell Hardin, Philip Pettit, Robert Sugden, Albert Weale.
Alan Hamlin is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Southampton and author of Ethics, Economics and the State. Philip Pettit is Professorial Fellow in teh Research School of Social Sciences at Australian National University. He is a General Editor of Basil Blackwell's Philosophical Theory series, author of Judging Justice and co-author of Semantics in Social Science.
Preface vii 1 The Normative Analysis of the State: Some Preliminaries Alan Hamlin and Philip Pettit 2Part I Democracy2 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy Joshua Cohen 153 The Limits of Democracy Albert Weale 174 Politics with Romance: Towards a Theory of Democratic Socialism Geoffrey Brennan 35Part II Contract and Compliance5 Maximizing Social Welfare: Is it the Government's Business? Robert Sugden 496 Liberty, Contract and the State Alan Hamlin 877 Political Obligation Russell Hardin 103Part III The Responsibility of the State8 The State as a Moral Agent Robert E. Goodin 1239 The Freedom of the City: A Republican Ideal Philip Pettit 14110 Power and Control in the Good PolityPartha Dasgupta 169Bibliography 191Contributors 201Index 203