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This text is designed to give students a comprehensive view of the British electoral system. Its innovative comparative and theoretical approach will provide a link between courses in British politics, comparative politics and political theory. The book looks at electoral systems in relation to democratic theory and examines the justification for modern electoral rules. It compares parliamentary elections with various other kinds of election, and it looks at the differences between British experience and that of other countries. Andrew Reeve and Alan Ware aim to inform the debate about whet.

Anthology of articles on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Burke, Bentham, Mill, and Marx.

The Saint-Simonians were the first to present a theory of 'exploitation' using that word itself. Their theory incorporated an unresolved tension between a narrow and a broad view of the concept. The narrow view restricted exploitation to the economic sphere; the broad view included the exploitation of women by men. Both aspects were traced to a transmitted history of force, and condemned as 'slavery'. The Saint-Simonian prescription envisaged the disappearance of 'economic' and gender exploitation. The original Saint-Simonian account of exploitation can be seen as setting a research agenda which still continues, or as creating a tangle of confusion which still remains.