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| Guide to Features | |
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| Guided Tour | |
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| Publisher's Acknowledgements | |
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| Authors' Acknowledgements | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theory as Abstraction | |
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| The Distinction between Facts and Values | |
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| The Problem with the Contestability Thesis | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Classical Ideas | |
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| The Link with Other Concepts | |
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| Power and Authority: an Indissoluble Link? | |
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| Does a Broad View of Politics Help? | |
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| Negative and Positive Power | |
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| Negative and Positive Power as a Relationship | |
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| Three-dimensional Power and the Problem of Power and Authority | |
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| Accounting for the 'Indissoluble Link' | |
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| References | |
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| The State | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Changing States: Hitler's Rise to Power | |
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| How Modern is the Concept of the State? | |
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| Defining the State | |
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| The Force Argument | |
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| The Centrality of Will | |
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| The State as a Mixture of Will and Force | |
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| Force and the Modernity Argument | |
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| The Argument against the Concept of the State | |
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| The Behaviouralist Argument | |
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| The Argument of David Easton | |
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| David Easton's Concept of the Political System | |
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| The Linguistic and Radical Argument | |
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| Problems with the Argument against the State | |
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| The Argument of David Easton | |
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| The Question of Existence | |
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| Force and Statelessness | |
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| The Distinction between Force and Constraint, State and Government | |
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| The Argument So Far ... | |
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| State and Sovereignty | |
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| Sovereignty as a Modern Concept | |
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| Sovereignty as a Broad Concept | |
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| Problems with the Theories of State Sovereignty | |
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| Difficulties with the Modernist Conception | |
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| The Broad View of State Sovereignty | |
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| Rescuing the Idea of Sovereignty | |
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| Moving to a Stateless World | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Smoking in the Last Chance Saloon? | |
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| Freedom | |
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| Mill's Defence of Freedom | |
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| Freedom of Thought and Expression | |
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| Freedom of Action | |
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| Criticisms and Developments | |
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| Harm to Others | |
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| Consent | |
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| Harm to Self | |
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| Offensiveness | |
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| Harmless Wrongdoing | |
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| Smoking Ban Reconsidered | |
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| Harm to Others | |
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| Consent | |
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| Harm to Self | |
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| Offensiveness | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Equality | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: What do People Deserve? | |
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| Principles of Equality | |
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| Moral Equality | |
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| Moral Autonomy and Moral Equality | |
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| Moral Inequality: a Caste Society | |
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| Legal Equality | |
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| Equal Liberties | |
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| Do Freedom and Equality Conflict? | |
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| Material Equality | |
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| Equal Access | |
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| Equality of Opportunity | |
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| Equality of Outcome | |
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| Affirmative Action | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Justice | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: A Neet Solution? | |
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| Theories of Just Distribution | |
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| Rawls: an Egalitarian Liberal Theory of Justice | |
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| The Original Position | |
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| Motivation in the Original Position | |
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| What would be Chosen in the Original Position? | |
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| The Democratic Conception: the Two Principles of Justice | |
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| Would we really Choose the Difference Principle? | |
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| Nozick: a Libertarian Theory of Justice | |
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| Nozick's Starting Point: Private Property Rights | |
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| Just Acquisition - Locke and Nozick | |
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| Just Transfer | |
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| Rectification | |
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| Cohen: a Marxist Perspective on Distributive Justice | |
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| Cohen contra Nozick | |
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| Cohen contra Rawls | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Democracy | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Inside the Voting Booth | |
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| Democracy and Confusion | |
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| Democracy and Liberalism | |
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| The Problem of Exclusion | |
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| The 'Tyranny of the Majority' Thesis | |
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| The Problem of Participation | |
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| Solutions to the Problem of Low Participation | |
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| Representational and Direct Democracy | |
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| The Argument So Far ... | |
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| Democracy and the State | |
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| The Ancient Greek Polity and the Problem with Liberalism | |
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| Democracy and the Relational Argument | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Citizenship | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: 'Being British': Pride, Passports and Princes | |
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| Citizenship and Liberalism | |
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| Citizenship and Class | |
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| Citizenship, Marshall and Social Rights | |
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| Citizenship and the New Right | |
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| Citizenship and the Case for a Basic Income | |
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| Citizenship and Women | |
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| Global Citizenship | |
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| The Argument So Far ... | |
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| Citizenship within the European Union | |
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| Does the State Undermine Citizenship? | |
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| The Problem of Class | |
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| Citizenship as a Relational Concept | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| New Concepts | |
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| Difference | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: 'A Protestant State for the Protestant People': Difference in Northern Ireland | |
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| Defining Difference | |
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| The Problem of the Dominant Identity | |
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| Postmodernism/Post-structuralism and Difference | |
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| Feminist Theory and Difference | |
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| Liberalism and Difference | |
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| Democracy and the State | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Human Rights | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Rough Justice? | |
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| Human Rights after Nuremberg | |
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| Human Rights Conventions | |
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| Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) | |
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| European Convention on Human Rights (1950) | |
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| Why the Declaration and the Convention are Significant | |
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| What are Rights? | |
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| Categorising Rights: Hohfeld's Scheme | |
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| Will Theory versus Benefit Theory | |
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| Relativism versus Universalism | |
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| Intuition and Moral Consensus | |
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| International Hypothetical Contract | |
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| Rawls and the International Hypothetical Contract | |
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| Rational Entailment | |
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| Group Rights and Welfare Rights | |
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| Group Rights | |
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| Welfare Rights | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Civil Disobedience | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Protest and Survive? | |
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| Civil Disobedience and Law-breaking | |
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| Law-breaking | |
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| Civil Disobedience and Political Obligation | |
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| Civil Disobedience and Democracy | |
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| Democracy and Obedience | |
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| Fair Compromise | |
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| Problems with Democracy | |
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| Rawls: Civil Disobedience and Conscientious Refusal | |
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| The Context | |
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| Obligation to Obey the Law | |
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| The Nature and Role of Civil Disobedience | |
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| Conscientious Refusal | |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Historical Background to the Civil Rights Movement | |
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| The Civil Rights Movement | |
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| Martin Luther King, 'Letter from Birmingham City Jail' (1963) | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: 9/11 and its Legacy | |
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| Liberalism and the Question of Violence | |
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| The State and Terrorism | |
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| An Assessment of Salmi | |
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| Distinguishing between Political Violence and Terrorism | |
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| Terrorism, Ambiguity and the Liberal State | |
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| Marx on the Problem of Terrorism | |
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| The Leninist and Maoist Position on Terrorism | |
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| A General Theory of Terrorism? | |
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| The Roots of Terrorism | |
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| The Problem of Terror and the State | |
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| The Force/Violence Distinction and the Analysis of Terrorism | |
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| The Significance of 9/11 | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Victimhood | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: 'Arbeit Macht Frei' | |
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| Victims and Violence | |
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| What is Victimhood? | |
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| Victimhood and Power | |
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| Are Women Victims? | |
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| Dualism, Women and Victimhood | |
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| Human Rights and Victimhood: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) | |
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| Is Contract an Answer to the Problem of Victimhood? | |
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| Victimhood and Denial | |
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| The State, Mutuality and Dualism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Conclusion: Academic Political Theory and Politics | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |