Against Leviathan. Government Power and a Free Society, Paperback - Robert Higgs

Distils complex economic and political issues for the layperson. Combining an economist's analytical scrutiny with an historian's respect for empir...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Paul FeyerabendNumber of pages: 222Publication date: 1982Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 14Cover type: Paperback / softbac...

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An important proposal for a rubric by which to measure the freeness of a given society.

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This book for students of governance, public policy and public administration examines why some countries are less corrupt and better governed than...

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Racism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment - our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts others' positions bu...

A primer on political theory from bestselling author and host of Talking Politics David Runciman.Publisher: Profile Books LtdAuthor(s): David Runci...

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For too long tradition and common sense have been marginalised by an illiberal elite, whose supposedly progressive ideology has degenerated into a ...

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President Trump has left the US people with no choice but to remove him from office: so explains celebrated Supreme Court lawyer and former Acting ...

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That the president uniquely represents the national interest is a political truism, yet this idea has been transformational, shaping the efforts of...

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This far--reaching study gives a concise and coherent overview of the debates surrounding the analysis of social power. The concept of power is out...

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DescriptionThe revised and updated edition of Goodin and Pettit's highly-acclaimed contemporary political philosophy anthology, bringing together t...

Reducere. The Prince (1532), The Leviathan (1651), The Two Treatises of Government (1689), The Social Contract (1762), The Constitution of Pennsylvania (1776...

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