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  • Ecosovereignty

    A Political Principle for the Environmental Crisis

    by Omar Dahbour ...
    In this book, Omar Dahbour develops the idea of ecosystem sovereignty, calling for a reinterpretation of some essential concepts in political philosophy, including territoriality, self-determination, peoplehood, and sovereignty, in order to make the case for peoples’ rights to protect and maintain their natural environments. In doing so, he theorizes current and historical struggles against ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice

    Edited by Heather D. Gautney, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson ...
    Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape as they are buffeted by countervailing forces of corporate globalization and participatory ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

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    How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet and What We Can Do About It

    by Nancy Fraser ...
    **A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite—and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our worldShortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize**Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life–guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this ... Read more

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  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

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  • Justice in a Changing World

    by Cecile Fabre ...
    Should governments give special rights to ethnic and cultural minorities? Should rich countries open their borders to economic immigrants or transfer resources to poor countries? When framing and implementing economic and environmental policies, should current generations take into account the interests of future generations? If our political community committed a wrong against another group a ... Read more

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  • Justice by Means of Democracy

    by Danielle Allen ...
    A bold and urgent articulation of a new political philosophy: power-sharing liberalism."An important critique of much of twentieth-century liberalism, which emphasized the distinction between liberty and democracy…. An important and provocative work of political theory. Essential."— ChoiceAt a time of great social and political turmoil, when many residents of the leading democracies question the ... Read more

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  • Why Deliberative Democracy?

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson ...
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and ... Read more

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  • The Dispersion of Power

    A Critical Realist Theory of Democracy

    by Samuel Ely Bagg ...
    The Dispersion of Power is an urgent call to rethink centuries of conventional wisdom about what democracy is, why it matters, and how to make it better. Drawing from history, social science, psychology, and critical theory, it explains why elections do not and cannot realize the classic ideal of popular rule, and why prevailing strategies of democratic reform often make things worse. Instead, ... Read more

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  • Free Market Fairness

    by John Tomasi ...
    Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the ... Read more

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  • The State of Democratic Theory

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating ... Read more

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  • Human Rights

    Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Democracy and the Global Order

    From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance

    by David Held ...
    This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD