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This is a revision of a text covering government in Germany. It is a comprehensive introduction offering an up-to-date account of the German political system and its institutions, providing a detailed consideration of the constitutional, executive and legislative dimensions of politics in Germany. The book focuses particular attention on the new constitutional provisions and the EU dimension. In addition to new material on the financial and economic system, coverage is extended to corporate governance, as well as the addition of new chapters on the problems of unification and the foreign policy dimension. The book should be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and above following courses in European comparative politics within politics and German studies.
| ISBN | 0631199632 | | Published in | Oxford | | ISBN13 | 9780631199632
(What's this?) | | Series title | Modern Governments | | Publisher | John Wiley and Sons Ltd | | Previous ISBN | 9780631171010 | | Imprint | Blackwell Publishers | | Height (mm) | 246 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 171 | | Publication date | 03 Nov 1995 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 320 | |
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Preface. >Acknowledgements. > Part I: State and Society: > >1. The State: Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge). >2. The Social Contract as Ideology: David Gauthier (University of Pittsburgh). >3. The Fraternal Social Contract: Carole Pateman (UCLA). >4. Theses on the Theory of the State: Claus Offe (Humboldt University Berlin) and Volker Ronge. >5. Invoking Civil Society: Charles Taylor (McGill University). >6. Democracy: From City-States to a Cosmopolitan Order?: David Held (Open University). > Part II: Democracy: > >7. The Public Sphere: Jurgen Habermas (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet). >8. Procedural Democracy: Robert A. Dahl (Yale University). >9. The Market and the Forum: Jon Elster (University of Chicago). >10. Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy: Joshua Cohen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). >11. Preferences and Politics: Cass R. Sunstein (University of Chicago). >12. From a Politics of Ideas to a Politics of Presence: Anne Phillips (London Guildhall University). > Part III: Justice: > >13. Justice as Fairness: John Rawls (Harvard University). >14. Distributive Justice: Robert Nozick (Harvard University). >15. The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self: Michael J. Sandel. >16. Polity and Group Difference: Iris Marion Young (University of Pittsburgh). >17. The Domain of the Political and Overlapping Consensus: John Rawls (Harvard University). > Part IV: Rights: > >18. Citizenship and Social Class: T. H. Marshall (University of Oxford). >19. Are there any Natural Rights: H. L. A. Hart (University of Oxford). >20. Taking Rights Seriously: Ronald M. Dworkin (University of Oxford and New York University). >21. Basic Rights: Henry Shue (Cornell University). >22. A Defence of Abortion: Judith Jarvis Thomson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). >23. Justice and Minority Rights: Will Kymlicka (University of Ottawa). > Part V: Liberty: > >24. Two Concepts of Liberty: Isaiah Berlin (University of Oxford). >25. What's Wrong with Negative Liberty?: Charles Taylor (McGill University). >26. The Structure of Proletarian Unfreedom: G. A. Cohen (University of Oxford). >27. Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom: Jeremy Waldron (University of California at Berkeley). > Part VI: Equality: > >28. The Idea of Equality: Bernard Williams (University of Oxford). >29. Equality of What?: Amartya Sen (Harvard University). >30. Complex Equality: Michael Walzer (Harvard University). >31. Justice Engendered: Martha Minnow (Harvard University). >32. Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective: Brian Barry (University College, London). > Part VII: Oppression: > >33. Power, Right, Truth: Michel Foucault. >34. Bearing the Consequences of Belief: Peter Jones (University of Newcastle). >35. Exploitation, Alternatives and Socialism: John E. Roemer (University of California, Davis). >36. Racism, Sexism and Preferential Treatment: Richard A. Wasserstrom (University of California at Santa Cruz). >37. Moral Woman and Immoral Man: ... (Part Contents).
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