This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Coleman's work has formed a consistent and highly distinguished attempt to find an account of the workings of social and political processes rooted in the rationality of the individual participants. The chapters address in various ways the fundamental Hobbesian problem of order; the question of how a set of self-interested individuals can arrive at some kind of social order. The volume is organised in three parts. The essays in Part I address the problem of social choice as a fundamental problem of the functioning of social systems. Those in Part II deal with relations of power as a crucial aspect of the relations between individual actions and their social consequences. Part III considers the question of the creation of collectivities and the rights that are allocated under them. As a whole, the volume demonstrates the integration and force of the views Coleman has developed.
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This book brings together the most important theoretical work of James S. Coleman on problems of collective action. Coleman's work has formed a consistent and highly distinguished attempt to find an account of the workings of social and political processes rooted in the rationality of the individual participants.
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sociometric example, fungible votes, divisible events, simple collectivity, interests and collective action, probabilistic decision rule, other corporate actors, potential bloc, legislative game, private goods markets, such collective decisions, interest matrix, determining member, supplier concentration, constitutional intent, vote exchanges, utility differences, floating value, expected realization, divisible goods, political money Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Security Council, Royal Society, Adam Smith, Federal Government, South Carolina, Weber-Fechner Law, Kenneth Arrow, Knut Wicksell, John Rawls, Mon Valley, East Los Angeles, Bank of England, Common Market, Medicare Dam Military, Talcott Parsons, Robert Nozick, Middle Ages Browse Sample Pages:
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