Books written by Robert E. Goodin

Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State

Litwak , E. 1965. Extended kin relations in an industrial democratic society . In Shanas and Streib 1965 , pp . 290–323 . Lloyd - George , D. 1908/1986 . Speech on old - age pensions . Hansard's Parliamentary Debates ( Commons ) ...
The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

... BN 686 Hahn , H 569 Hajer , MA 9 , 692 Halbwachs , Maurice 213 , 222 Halffman , W 689 , 690 Hall , CS 133 Hall , H Duncan 273 Hall , PA 241 , 245 , 754 Hall , Stuart 396 , 397 , 501 Hamill , L 712 Hamilton , Alexander 526 Hamilton ...
Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn

Too Many Groups The first problem—the problem of too many groups—might in principle seem easily resolvable within the terms of Phillips's proposal. Whether it is resolvable in practice remains an open empirical question.
On Settling

Gibson 2010, pp. 163, 153. 67. If only to “provide the recipient [of the apology] with a reason to maintain a relationship with the wrongdoer or to allow the wrongdoer to remain in her community” (Martin 2010, p. 534).
Social Welfare and Individual Responsibility

Bane , Mary Jo , and David T. Ellwood . 1994. Welfare realities : From rhetoric to reform . Cambridge , Mass .: Harvard University Press . Barr , Nick . 1987. Economics of the welfare state . London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson . 1989.
Explaining Norms

Geoffrey Brennan, Lina Eriksson, Robert E. Goodin, Nicholas Southwood ... G. 16, 45–6, 113–14, 116, 223–4 Brezhnev, L. 97, 119 Brink, D. 27, 58, 62, 199 Broome, J. 62 Buchanan, J. 45, 222–3 calculated breach 235–6 calculations 98, ...
Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy

Robert E. Goodin, a philosopher with many books on political theory, public policy and applied ethics to his credit, defends utilitarianism against its critics and shows how it can be applied most effectively over a wide range of public ...
Reasons for Welfare: The Political Theory of the Welfare State

... regarded as their due , to compulsory maintenance by children " ( see similarly Anderson 1977 : 50 ) . ... Now , there is undeniably something prima facie odd about the fact that " old people don't want to be dependent on their ...
Protecting the Vulnerable: A Re-Analysis of our Social Responsibilities

Robert E. Goodin argues that this is morally mistaken. In Protecting the Vulnerable, he presents a comprehensive theory of responsibility based on the concept of vulnerability.
An Epistemic Theory of Democracy

10. Pp. 40–6 in Hamilton, Madison and Jay, The Federalist, with Letters of Brutus', ed. Terence Ball. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003; originally published 1787. Madison, James. 1788/2003. Federalist No.49.
Political Theory Without Borders

John Rawls, The Law of Peoples (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), §4.1, p. 37 and §15.1, p. 106. Even if one does not subscribe to a robust egalitarian ideal for international society, discharging the political ...
The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science.
An Epistemic Theory of Democracy

The book concludes with a discussion of how epistemic democracy might be undermined, using as case studies the Trump and Brexit campaigns.
An Epistemic Theory of Democracy

This book examines the Condorcet Jury Theorem and how its assumptions can be applicable to the real world.
On Settling

In fact, the book makes the case that we'd all be lost without settling—and that even to strive, one must first settle. We may admire strivers and love the ideal of striving, but who of us could get through a day without settling?
Deliberative Policy Analysis: Understanding Governance in the Network Society

This contextual approach indicates the need to rethink the relationship between social theory, policy analysis, and politics. The book is essential reading for all those involved in the study of public policy.
Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn

In Innovating Democracy, Robert Goodin surveys these new deliberative mechanisms, asking how they work and what we can properly expect of them. Much though they have to offer, they cannot deliver all that deliberative democrats hope.
Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn

Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn Robert E. Goodin. And it is democratically essential to ... Democracy. We are in a period of high innovation, both within democratic theory and within democratic practice.
Protecting the Vulnerable: A Re-Analysis of Our Social Responsibilities

Robert E. Goodin argues that this is morally mistaken. In Protecting the Vulnerable, he presents a comprehensive theory of responsibility based on the concept of vulnerability.
A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars.