Democracy, Power, and Justice: Essays in Political Theory

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Bringing together a selection of twenty-one major articles and essays by renowned political theorist Brian Barry, this collection presents his theories of how social institutions ought to work as well as how they actually do work, and elucidates the connections between the two kinds of theory. The book includes an introduction that explains the context within which each essay was written, and a discussion of subsequent developments that are relevant to its arguments. The strange death of political philosophy -- Is democracy special? -- Does democracy cause inflation? The 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 neighbor? -- Lady Chatterley's lover and Doctor Fischer's bomb party: 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 between generations -- The Ethics of resource depletion -- The Continuing relevance of socialism.