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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Srzednicki, Jan T. J.,

Titel

The democratic perspective : political and social philosophy

Auflage

1st ed. 1988

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht, The Netherlands ; : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers,

Erscheinungsjahr

1988

Link zum Volltext

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• One — The Convergence of Interests -- I The Nature of the Social Bond -- II The General Will Leitmotiff -- Two — Public Good and Public Demand -- III Bias, Descriptive and Other -- IV The Opacity of Results -- V The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis — Needs -- VI The Opacity of Satisfaction Prognosis — Perspectives -- VII the opacity of satisfaction prognosis — Demands -- Three — Procedural Proposals -- VIII Constitutionalism -- IX Sequentialism -- X Pluralism.
• Section 1 One of the big problems facing us is the need to plan for the betterment and improvement of society. In any status quo there are many unsatisfactory moments and experience shows that with changing conditions, even those elements of our communal structure that work well will often get out of step and become a problem. We need then to introduce devices both to alleviate present troubles and, if possible, to anticipate future ones. On the whole, it might appear to the untutored eye that the matter is relatively simple. For instance, if we keep increasing prices of commodities without increasing incomes, and especially if we allow inflation to proceed unfettered as well, the situation will certainly deteriorate. What we need to.
• English
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