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Imagining the American polity: Political science and the discourse of democracy
(Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company, 2006)
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Disparate goods and Rawls' difference principle: A social choice theoretic treatment
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1979-09)
Rawls' Difference Principle asserts that a basic economic structure is just if it makes the worst off people as well off as is feasible. How well off someone is is to be measured by an ‘index’ of ‘primary social goods’. ...
Causes as explanations: A critique
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; D. Reidel Publishing Company ; Springer Science+Business Media, 1981-12)
This paper offers a critique of the view that causation can be analyzed in terms of explanation. In particular, the following points are argued: (1) a genuine explanatory analysis of causation must make use of a fully ...
Arrow's Theorem with a fixed feasible alternative
(Springer-Verlag, 1987-06)
Arrow's Theorem, in its social choice function formulation, assumes that all nonempty finite subsets of the universal set of alternatives is potentially a feasible set. We demonstrate that the axioms in Arrow's Theorem, ...
Sequence generators, graphs, and formal languages,
(Elsevier, 1962-09)
A sequence generator is a finite graph, more general than, but akin to, the usual state diagram associated with a finite automaton. The nodes of a sequence generator represent complete states, and each node is labeled with ...
Equal Opportunity to Meaningful Competitions: Disability Rights and Justice in Sports
(Disability Studies Quarterly, 2005-06)
This paper explores the questions of equality and social justice for people with disabilities in sports and, by extension, other civil societal practices that involve the pursuit of excellence. I argue that such practices ...