James S. Coleman

Individual Interests and Collective Action

Studies in Rationality and Social Change

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9780521108201
• ISBN-10: 0521108209
• Artikelnr.: 26009867

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Collective Decisions: 1. Collective decisions
2. Beyond Pareto optimality
3. The possibility of a social welfare function
4. Social action systems
5. Why so much stability? Recontracting, trustworthiness and the stability of vote exchanges
6. Collective decisions in a social system
Part II. Power: 7. Political money
8. Control of collectivities and the power of a collectivity to act
9. Constitutional power in experimental health service and delivery systems
10. Legitimate and illegitimate use of power
11. Processes of concentration and dispersal of power in social systems
12. The corporate structure of the economy and its effects on income
Part III. Constitutions: 13. Individual interests and collective action
14. Inequality, sociology and moral philosophy
15. Individual rights and the state
16. Rawls, Nozick and educational equality
Bibliography
Index.