Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

"This volume does contemporary political philosophy proud .... the real quality of the volume like this is a function of its contributions, and the pieces here could hardly be bettered." Utilitas "It will provide an unrivalled overview of the principal positions and debates in political philosophy over the past thirty years or so. It should establish itself as the standatd one-volume reader for some time to come." Daniel Weinstock, University of Montreal

Robert Goodin is a Distinguished Professor jointly of Philosophy and of Social & Political Theory in the Research School of Social Sciences and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. General Editor of a 10--volume series of Oxford Handbooks of Political Science and founding editor of Blackwell's Journal of Political Philosophy, Goodin served as co--editor of the British Journal of Political Science and Associate Editor of Ethics. Philip Pettit, formerly of the Australian National University, is now L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values in Princeton University. He works in moral and political theory and on background issues in philosophical psychology and social ontology. Thomas Pogge is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Professorial Fellow at the ANU Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics. He is editor for social and political philosophy for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science.

Part 1 Disciplinary contributions to analytical philosophy, Philip Pettit: Continental philosophy, David West; history, Richard Tuck; sociology, Robert Brown; economics, Geoffrey Brennan; political science, Robert E. Goodin; legal studies, Tom Campbell. Part 2 Major ideologies and anarchies, Richard Sylvan: conservatism, Anthony Quinton; feminism, Jane J. Mansbridge and Susan Miller Okin; liberalism, Alan Ryan; marxism, Barry Hindess; socialism, Peter Self. Part 3 Special topics and autonomy, Gerald Dworkin; community, Will Kymlicka; contract and consent, Jean Hampton; constitutionalism and the rule of law, C.T. Ten; corporatism and syndicalism, Bob Jessop; democracy, Amy Gutmann; dirty hands, C.A.J. Coady; discourse, Ernesto Laclau; distributive justice, Serge-Christophe Kolmm; efficiency, Russell Hardin; environmentalism, John Passmore; equality, Richard Arneson; federalism, William H. Riker; international affairs, Chris Brown; legitimacy, Richard E. Flathman; liberty, Chadran Kukathas; power, Terence Ball; property, Andrew Reeve; republicanism, Knud Haakonssen; rights, Jeremy Waldron; secession and nationalism, Allen Buchanan; sociobiology, Allan Gibbard; state, Patrick Dunleavy; toleration and fundamentalism, Stephen Macedo; totalitarianism, Eugene Kamenka; trust, John Dunn; virtue, Michael Slote; welfare, Alan Hamlin.