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Explores the mutually constraining relationship between economic system and state legitimation and suggests that a new social contract can best serve as a 'test' of Gorbachev's intent to pursue 'radical' economic reform. Prospects for radical reform have risen substantially since Gorbachev's election as General Secretary. (Abstract amended)

RECENTLY, THERE HAS BEEN MUCH DISCUSSION OF A "SOCIAL CONTRACT" OR "SOCIAL COMPACT" BETWEEN THE LABOR GOVERNMENT AND THE TRADE UNION MOVEMENT. IT HAS BEEN SUGGESTED THAT ADHERENCE TO THIS "SOCIAL CONTRACT" OFFERS THE ONLY HOPE FOR BRITAIN'S SUCCESSFUL ECONOMIC SURVIAL. IN THIS ARTICLE MCLACHLAN DISSCUSES THE THEORY OF THIS SO CALLED CONTRACT.

This book employs the event of the Arab Spring revolution of 2011 to reflect on the event itself and beyond. Some of the chapters address the colonial encounter and its lingering reverberations on the African sociopolitical landscape. Others address the aftermath of large scale societal violence and trauma that pervade the African context. The contributions indicate the range of challenges confronting African societies in the postmodern era. They also illustrate the sheer resilience and inventiveness of those societies in the face of apparently overwhelming odds. What is the nature of political power in contemporary Africa as constituted from below instead of being a state driven phenomenon? What constitutes sovereignty without recourse to the usual academic responses and discourses? These two questions loom behind most of the deliberations contained in this book with contributions from an impressive field of international scholars.

Sees an erosion of the "social contract" established in the 1950s between the communist regime and society; impact on the economy and implications for economic reform.

In this translated classic, Rousseau argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. He says that we can only be free under the law by voluntarily embracing that law as our own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate all our desires to the collective good, the general will.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Was Jean-Jacques Rousseau? -- What Does The Social Contract Say? -- Why Does The Social Contract Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Author's Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Author's Work -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited

Between contractualism and contractarianism / Edwin Etieyibo -- Consent, contract and autonomy / Peter Stone -- Basic equality and social contract theory / Nikolas Kirby -- Hypothetical consent and the bindingness of obligations / Carl Fox -- On the (historical) grounds of Rawls' original position / Michele Bocchiola -- Beyond Rawls' basic structure of society / Juan Antonio Fernández Manzano -- Rawlsian contractualism and cognitive disabilities / Akira Inoue -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau's civil education and the construction of the citizen / Anna Romani -- Moral contractarianism, moral skepticism, and agreement / Edwin Etieyibo -- Dynamic contractarianism / Vangelis Chiotis -- Traditional African consensual democracy and the three notions of consent in social contract theory / Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani -- Universal human rights from an African social contract / Christopher Allsobrook -- Afro-libertarianism and the social contract framework in post-colonial Africa : the case of post-2007 elections Kenya / Sirkku Hellsten -- Ubuntu and social contract theory / Anthony Oritsegbubemi Oyowe & Edwin Etieyibo

An exposition and evaluation of major work in social contract theory from 1950 to the present. It locates the central themes of that theory in the intellectual legacy of utilitarianism, particularly the problems of defining principles of justice and of showing the grounds of moral obligation. It demonstrates how theorists responded in a novel way to the dilemmas articulated in utilitarianism, developing in their different approaches a constructivist method in ethics, a method that aimed to vindicate a liberal, democratic and just political order.