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Evaluating Parental Power - Allyn Fives - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Evaluating Parental Power - Allyn Fives - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Is parental power over children legitimate? And what role do both theoretical analysis and practical judgement play when we make such normative evaluations? While this book adds to the growing literature on parents, children, families and the state, it primarily focuses on one issue: the legitimacy of parents’ power. It also seriously considers the challenge posed by moral pluralism, and analyses the role of both theoretical rationality and practical judgement in resolving moral dilemmas associated with parental power.The book makes a number of conceptual and methodological innovations. Whilst parental power is usually conceptualised as a form of paternalism, this book shows that non-paternalistic parental power can be legitimate as well. Although such power is often assumed to involve interference with children’s liberty, there is in fact a plurality of forms of parental power. And whilst political theorists offer general rules to resolve dilemmas arising between competing moral claims, it is demonstrated here that, in the evaluation of parental power, practical judgements are required in specific cases. A number of such cases of parental power are explored here at length, including parental licenses, children’s informed consent, and civic education.

DKK 147.00
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Power - Mark Haugaard - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Power - Mark Haugaard - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

An introductory guide to some of the most significant perspectives on the subject of power within social and political theory. Contains extracts from such leading contemporary thinkers as Giddens, Lukes and Bourdieu alongside recent conceptions of power from important twentieth century figures including Weber, Arendt and Foucault. Each chapter concentrates on an individual theoretical perspective, and contains a substantial article or extract with its own comprehensive introduction which places the work in context. An excellent point of departure for understanding more about social and political power.

DKK 229.00
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Power, Luck and Freedom - Keith Dowding - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Power, Luck and Freedom - Keith Dowding - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book presents thirteen essays by Keith Dowding, one of the world's foremost authorities on political and social power. Ranging across a number of related topics - including luck, choice, freedom and rights - Dowding criticises static explanatory models of power, emphasising the need for a more dynamic approach. The alternative he proposes is a rational choice resourcist model, which takes into account the crucial factors of reputation and luck.The power of agents, notably leaders, is partially based on our perception of their power. In strategic settings luck plays a role in outcomes, but these outcomes then feed into the ability and reputation of actors, enhancing or damaging their power. Perceptions feed into reality which then feeds back into perceptions. Dowding shows how luck is related to responsibility - reducing some types of luck in outcomes will, paradoxically, also reduce responsibility. He integrates this account into our understanding of the value of choice and freedom, demonstrating that collective action provides problems for republican accounts of freedom from domination. Arguing that choice is valued instrumentally, he then shows that the 'liberal paradox' of Amartya Sen, while demonstrating the need to balance welfare and rights, does not present the fundamental evaluational problems Sen claims.Featuring a substantial introduction written specially for the volume, Power, luck and freedom serves as an excellent overview of the work of a key thinker on power. It will support undergraduate and graduate work in political science, political sociology and political theory.

DKK 759.00
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Neoliberal Power and Public Management Reforms - Peter Triantafillou - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Neoliberal Power and Public Management Reforms - Peter Triantafillou - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. It examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector and asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? Triantafillou argues that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve, above all, around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. To better grasp contemporary administrative power, we need to distinguish between critical and constructivist neoliberalism. Whereas the former is inherently critical of state intervention because of its cognitive limitations, constructivist neoliberalism is concerned with how the state may engage in mobilizing the self-steering capacities of both society and the state administration itself. It is also argued that the bulk of critical scholarship on administrative power has focused too narrowly on critical neoliberalism and its celebration of the market. The sparse critical attention to constructivist neoliberalism is problematic as it has no inherent limitations on the exercise of administrative power. The study further examines the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself. This book is relevant for academics and post-graduates interested in critical understandings and analyses of the public administration and public governance.

DKK 804.00
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Criminality, Political Power and Conflict - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Criminality, Political Power and Conflict - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This volume brings together contributions from various scholars working on the intersections between political power, criminality and conflict in three continents. Through qualitative methods and rich empirical data, the volume contributes to the understanding of politicisation and criminalisation as processes that are largely co-constitutive and, at the same time, grounded historically. -- .

DKK 1019.00
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Debt as Power - Tim Di Muzio - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Debt as Power - Tim Di Muzio - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Debt as Power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The book is distinctive in offering a historically sensitive and comprehensive analysis of debt as an interconnected and global phenomenon.

DKK 229.00
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Debt as Power - Tim Di Muzio - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Debt as Power - Tim Di Muzio - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors. The book is distinctive in offering a historically sensitive and comprehensive analysis of debt as an interconnected and global phenomenon.

DKK 759.00
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New Labour in Power - Peter Lawler - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

New Labour in Power - Peter Lawler - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

A systematic and comprehensive study of the early performance of New Labour in power. It brings together the results of a co-ordinated research initiative underway in the Department of Government at the University of Manchester, charting the developing relationship between election promise and government policy across the whole sweep of New Labour''s manifesto agenda. Each chapter examines New Labour''s initial comments, charts opening policy moves, and traces policy trajectories in each major department of state; so generating a comprehensive audit of New Labour''s electoral fidelity and an academically-informed assessment of New Labour''s likely policy trajectory though its first period of office.

DKK 182.00
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