Democracy, Power and Justice

This volume contains a collection of the author's major articles and extended review essays on political theory. He discusses key issues in analytical and normative political theory and explores many of the controversies amongst political theorists in the past 15 years. For this collection, Barry has added an introduction that explains the context within which each essay was originally written and discusses any subsequent developments that are relevant to its arguments. The book should be of interest to professionals and students, as well as those enthusiasts with an interest in the central problems of political theory.Table of ContentThe strange death of political philosophy; is democracy special?; does democracy cause inflation? - political ideas of some economists; political accommodation and consociational democracy; the consociational model and its dangers; self-government revisited; exit, voice and loyalty; power - an economic analysis; is it better to be powerful or lucky?; the obscurities of power; the uses of "power"; and who is my neighbour?; liberalism, Pareto optimality and the problem of objectionable preferences; tragic choices; can States be moral? - international morality and the compliance problem; humanity and justice in global perspective; justice as reciprocity; justice between generations; the ethics of resource depletion; the continuing relevance of socialism.