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Power, luck and freedom
Collected essays1. Aufl.
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37,99 € |
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| Verlag: | Manchester University Press |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 28.10.2016 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781526104571 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 344 |
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Beschreibungen
This book presents thirteen essays from a leading contemporary political scientist, with a substantial introduction bringing together the themes. The topics covered include political and social power, freedom, choice, rights, responsibility, the author's unique account of luck and systematic luck and the nature of leadership. There are also discussions of conceptual analysis, the structure-agency debate, luck egalitarianism, Sen's liberal paradox, problems in the measurement of freedom and choice and the differences between instrumental and intrinsic accounts of the value of freedom and related concepts.
The wide-ranging material will provide an excellent text for students at all levels. It is appropriate reading for a host of courses in the fields of political science, political sociology and political theory at both undergraduate and graduate level. Whilst addressing some philosophically difficult and advanced subjects, the accessible writing makes the subject-matter comprehensible for all levels of students.
The wide-ranging material will provide an excellent text for students at all levels. It is appropriate reading for a host of courses in the fields of political science, political sociology and political theory at both undergraduate and graduate level. Whilst addressing some philosophically difficult and advanced subjects, the accessible writing makes the subject-matter comprehensible for all levels of students.
Keith Dowding is a major figure in relation to debates on power and highly influential in the fields of political theory and political science. <i> Power luck and freedom </i>is a collection of his essays and articles, that provide a significant reference point for the field of power analysis.
Introduction: power, luck and freedom
<b>Part I: Power</b>
1. Why should we care about the definition of power?
2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships
3. Rational choice and community power structures
4. Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacy
<b>Part II: Luck</b>
5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry
6. Shaping future luck
7. Luck, equality and responsibility
8. Luck and leadership
<b>Part III: Freedom</b>
9. Choice: its increase and its value
10. The value of choice in public policy
11. Republican freedom, rights and the coalition problem
12. The construction of rights
13. Social choice and the grammar of rights and freedoms
Index
<b>Part I: Power</b>
1. Why should we care about the definition of power?
2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships
3. Rational choice and community power structures
4. Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacy
<b>Part II: Luck</b>
5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry
6. Shaping future luck
7. Luck, equality and responsibility
8. Luck and leadership
<b>Part III: Freedom</b>
9. Choice: its increase and its value
10. The value of choice in public policy
11. Republican freedom, rights and the coalition problem
12. The construction of rights
13. Social choice and the grammar of rights and freedoms
Index
Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra
This book presents thirteen essays by Keith Dowding, one of the world's foremost authorities on political and social power. Ranging across a number of related topics - including luck, choice, freedom and rights - Dowding criticises static explanatory models of power, emphasising the need for a more dynamic approach. The alternative he proposes is a rational choice resourcist model, which takes into account the crucial factors of reputation and luck.
The power of agents, notably leaders, is partially based on our perception of their power. In strategic settings luck plays a role in outcomes, but these outcomes then feed into the ability and reputation of actors, enhancing or damaging their power. Perceptions feed into reality which then feeds back into perceptions. Dowding shows how luck is related to responsibility - reducing some types of luck in outcomes will, paradoxically, also reduce responsibility. He integrates this account into our understanding of the value of choice and freedom, demonstrating that collective action provides problems for republican accounts of freedom from domination. Arguing that choice is valued instrumentally, he then shows that the 'liberal paradox' of Amartya Sen, while demonstrating the need to balance welfare and rights, does not present the fundamental evaluational problems Sen claims.
Featuring a substantial introduction written specially for the volume,<i> Power, luck and freedom </i>serves as an excellent overview of the work of a key thinker on power. It will support undergraduate and graduate work in political science, political sociology and political theory.
The power of agents, notably leaders, is partially based on our perception of their power. In strategic settings luck plays a role in outcomes, but these outcomes then feed into the ability and reputation of actors, enhancing or damaging their power. Perceptions feed into reality which then feeds back into perceptions. Dowding shows how luck is related to responsibility - reducing some types of luck in outcomes will, paradoxically, also reduce responsibility. He integrates this account into our understanding of the value of choice and freedom, demonstrating that collective action provides problems for republican accounts of freedom from domination. Arguing that choice is valued instrumentally, he then shows that the 'liberal paradox' of Amartya Sen, while demonstrating the need to balance welfare and rights, does not present the fundamental evaluational problems Sen claims.
Featuring a substantial introduction written specially for the volume,<i> Power, luck and freedom </i>serves as an excellent overview of the work of a key thinker on power. It will support undergraduate and graduate work in political science, political sociology and political theory.
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