Cover Image

A theory of political obligation : membership, commitment, and the bonds of society /

Show other versions (1)
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gilbert, Margaret, 1942-
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Political obligation.
Obligation politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Political obligation
Politieke filosofie.
Verplichtingen.
Individu en samenleving.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • A central problem of political obligation. The membership problem
  • Obligations : preliminary points
  • In pursuit of political obligation
  • Actual contract theory : attractions
  • Objections to actual contract theory
  • Societies, membership, and obligation. Social groups : starting small
  • Joint commitment and obligation
  • Societies as plural subjects
  • A solution to the membership problem. Political societies
  • Reconsidering actual contract theory
  • The plural subject theory of political obligation
  • Summary and prospect.