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"This book presents the rational choice theories of collective action and social choice, applying them to problems of public policy and social justice"-- "Claims of knowledge and of 'principles' regarding political matters, both empirical and moral, have been made over the millennia but never without contention. This book is about some of the empirical and moral generalizations arrived at in what might be called the new political science. The book deals with the findings directly, and how one goes about justifying such claims. It reveals how the quality of the justification determines the quality of the claims. The principle foundations used to develop the arguments or justification are those of rational choice and social justice theories. But given the diversity of claims within the well reasoned philosophical traditions, we need more than reason to establish (or for that matter, except in cases of contradiction, disestablish) claims of knowledge about politics. Empirical findings, especially from experiments, are brought in to evaluate the validity of the claims. The principles discussed improve our understanding of concepts such as social welfare, collective action, altruism, ot
- Author
- Joe Oppenheimer, Joe A. Oppenheimer
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781139508087