Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra

‘An impressive piece of work which brings together thirteen articles published by Dowding over the course of twenty-five years. The book, which complements and deepens the theses developed by Dowding in Rational choice and political power, relies on formal political theory and analytical philosophy to shed new light on our understanding of concepts such as power and freedom.’Pamela Pansardi, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 10, No. 3,2017

• Introduction: power, luck and freedom Part I: Power1. Why should we care about the definition of power?2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships3. Rational choice and community power structures4. Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacyPart II: Luck5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry 6. Shaping future luck 7. Luck, equality and responsibility 8. Luck and leadershipPart III: Freedom9. 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 freedomsIndex

Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra

‘An impressive piece of work which brings together thirteen articles published by Dowding over the course of twenty-five years. The book, which complements and deepens the theses developed by Dowding in Rational choice and political power, relies on formal political theory and analytical philosophy to shed new light on our understanding of concepts such as power and freedom.’Pamela Pansardi, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 10, No. 3,2017

• Introduction: power, luck and freedom Part I: Power1. Why should we care about the definition of power?2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships3. Rational choice and community power structures4. Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacyPart II: Luck5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry 6. Shaping future luck 7. Luck, equality and responsibility 8. Luck and leadershipPart III: Freedom9. 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 freedomsIndex

Keith Dowding is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University, Canberra

‘An impressive piece of work which brings together thirteen articles published by Dowding over the course of twenty-five years. The book, which complements and deepens the theses developed by Dowding in Rational choice and political power, relies on formal political theory and analytical philosophy to shed new light on our understanding of concepts such as power and freedom.’Pamela Pansardi, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy, Journal of Political Power, Vol. 10, No. 3,2017

• Introduction: power, luck and freedom Part I: Power1. Why should we care about the definition of power?2. Agency and structure: interpreting power relationships3. Rational choice and community power structures4. Power, capability and ableness: the fallacy of the vehicle fallacyPart II: Luck5. Resources, power and systematic luck: a response to Barry 6. Shaping future luck 7. Luck, equality and responsibility 8. Luck and leadershipPart III: Freedom9. 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 freedomsIndex