Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. 1 State and Society -- Ch. 1. The State / Quentin Skinner -- Ch. 2. State Simplification / James C. Scott -- Ch. 3. The Social Contract as Ideology / David Gauthier -- Ch. 4. The Fraternal Social Contract / Carole Pateman -- Ch. 5. Invoking Civil Society / Charles Taylor -- Pt. 2. Democracy -- Ch. 6. The Public Sphere / Jürgen Habermas -- Ch. 7. Procedural Democracy / Robert A. Dahl -- Ch. 8. Preferences and Politics / Cass R. Sunstein -- Ch. 9. The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory / Jon Elster -- Ch. 10. Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy / Joshua Cohen -- Ch. 11. Dealing with Difference: From a Politics of Ideas to a Politics of Presence /

Anne Phillips -- Pt. 3. Justice -- Ch. 12. Justice as Fairness / John Rawls -- Ch. 13. Distributive Justice / Robert Nozick -- Ch. 14. Chance, Choice and Justice / Brian Barry -- Ch. 15. The Procedural Republic and the Unencumbered Self / Michael J. Sandel -- Ch. 16. Polity and Group Difference: A Critique of the Ideal of Universal Citizenship / Iris Marion Young -- Ch. 17. Superseding Historic Injustice / Jeremy Waldron -- Pt. 4. Rights -- Ch. 18. Are There Any Natural Rights? / H. L. A. Hart -- Ch. 19. Taking Rights Seriously / Ronald M. Dworkin -- Ch. 20. Basic Rights / Henry Shue -- Ch. 21. A Defense of Abortion / Judith Jarvis Thomson -- Ch. 22. Justice and Minority Rights / Will Kymlicka -- Ch. 23. Human Rights as a Common Concern / Charles R. Beitz -- Pt. 5. Liberty -- Ch. 24. Two Concepts of Liberty / Isaiah Berlin -- Ch. 25. What's Wrong with Negative Liberty? / Charles Taylor -- Ch. 26. A Third Concept of Liberty / Quentin Skinner -- Ch. 27. Are Freedom and Equality Compatible? / G. A. Cohen -- Ch. 28. Liberal Pluralism and Constitutional Democracy: The Case of Freedom of Conscience / William A. Galston -- Ch. 29. Homelessness and the Issue of Freedom / Jeremy Waldron -- Pt. 6. Equality -- Ch. 30. The Idea of Equality / Bernard Williams -- Ch. 31. Equality or Priority? / Derek Parfit -- Ch. 32. Equality of What? / Amartya Sen -- Ch. 33. Complex Equality / Michael Walzer -- Ch. 34. Justice Engendered / Martha Minow -- Ch. 35. Egalitarianism and the Undeserving Poor / Richard J. Arneson -- Pt. 7. Oppression -- Ch. 36. Power, Right, Truth / Michel Foucault -- Ch. 37. Racism, Sexism and Preferential Treatment: An Approach to the Topics / Richard A. Wasserstrom -- Ch. 38. "Mistresses of Their Own Destiny": Group Rights, Gender and Realistic Rights of Exit / Susan Moller Okin -- Ch. 39. "Dependency" Demystified: Inscriptions of Power in a Keyword of the Welfare State / Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon -- Ch. 40. Bearing the Consequences of Belief / Peter Jones -- Pt. 8. International Affairs -- Ch. 41. Just War: The Case of World War II / G. E. M. Anscombe -- Ch. 42. National Self-determination / Avishai Margalit and Joseph Raz -- Ch. 43. The Law of Peoples / John Rawls -- Ch. 44. The Romance of the Nation-State / David Luban -- Ch. 45. Democracy: From City-states to a Cosmopolitan Order? / David Held -- Ch. 46. Global Governance and Democratic Accountability / Robert O. Keohane -- Ch. 47. Migration and Poverty / Thomas Pogge -- Ch. 48. Humanity and Justice in Global Perspective / Brian Barry.

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