Books written by Robert E. Goodin

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Science
    The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

    Drawing on the rich resources of the ten-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science, this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of all the main branches of contemporary political science: political theory ...

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy
    The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

    The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis
    The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

    The books set out not just to report on the discipline, but to shape it. The series will be an indispensable point of reference for anyone working in political science and adjacent disciplines.

  • Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology
    Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

    This monumental volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the essential primary readings in post-war political philosophy.

  • Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology
    Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology

    This monumental volume provides the most comprehensive and authoritative collection of the essential primary readings in post-war political philosophy.

  • A New Handbook of Political Science
    A New Handbook of Political Science

    In the Perigord town of St Denis, Captain Bruno Courreges is pulled from sleep by the wail of the local fire engines. A nearby barn is engulfed in flame, the surrounding fields ablaze. Everything points to arson.

  • Free Movement
    Free Movement

    Saying that 'it is impossible to do the right thing with X in power' is typically offered as an excuse for not doing the right thing. It is, equally, an argument for getting rid of X. With a very few political leaders, and with rather ...

  • Explaining Norms
    Explaining Norms

    We are sceptical, however, that either cluster is sufficient for the existence of a norm. ... Yet it surely cannot be right to say that there is a 'norm' among the Chastians of having sex before marriage, that the principle that one ...

  • Reflective Democracy
    Reflective Democracy

    The great challenge is how to implement that deliberative ideal among millions of people at once. This book proposes a solution to this problem.

  • Green Political Theory
    Green Political Theory

    Mainstream politicians busily disparage them and imitate them in turn. This new book shows that 'greens' deserve to be taken more seriously than that. This is the first full-length philosophical discussion of the green political programme.

  • What's Wrong With Terrorism
    What's Wrong With Terrorism

    In this provocative new book, Robert Goodin puts forward the view that terrorism is, in fact, a deliberate tactic of frightening people for socio-political gain.

  • The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism
    The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism

    This book traces how individuals fare over time in each of the three principal types of welfare state.

  • Political Theory Without Borders
    Political Theory Without Borders

    Even this brief review of the subcategories of talent migration reveals the prevalence of selective admission in the ... the proactive recruitment of talent across borders by competitive states comes very close to resembling corporate ...

  • What's Wrong With Terrorism?
    What's Wrong With Terrorism?

    In this provocative new book, Robert Goodin puts forward the view that terrorism is, in fact, a deliberate tactic of frightening people for socio-political gain.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis
    The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability
    The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability

    Authority is a less dominant concern but nonetheless classical GGOs ensure they offer responsiveness to key members through safety valves in the rule-making system that assure the possibility of waylaying an undesirable outcome and weak ...

  • Political Theory and Public Policy
    Political Theory and Public Policy

    Others see genuine philosophical issues in public affairs but try to resolve them through fanciful examples. Both, argues Robert E. Goodin, are wrong.

  • A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy

    Political philosophy has become an active and central area of research in the past two or three decades. The editors have taken a broad view of the range of issues...

  • The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability
    The Oxford Handbook Public Accountability

    Drawing on the best scholars in the field from around the world, this handbook showcases conceptual and normative as well as the empirical approaches in public accountability studies.

  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Science
    The Oxford Handbook of Political Science

    Drawing on the rich resources of the 10-volume series of The Oxford Handbooks of Political Science this one-volume distillation provides a comprehensive overview of the main branches of contemporary political science.