The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing concern in the modern world. Political and social theorists, jurists, economists, and historians have taken positions for and against the property institutions upheld in their time by the state, and further dehate seems inevitable. This book brings together ten classic statements which set out the main arguments that are now appealed to and places them in historical and critical perspective.
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The legitimate role of the state in relation to property and the justification of property institutions of various kinds are matters of increasing ...
In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants and their impacts on one another. Macpherson, who was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an Officer of the Order of Canada, suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values."
In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variant...
