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Introduction -- Summary of the chapters -- A comparison of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- Discourse and democracy -- Social choice theory -- Criticisms of deliberative democracy -- Criticisms of social choice theory -- Conclusion -- Circumventing arrow's theorem -- Introduction -- What hope for democracy? -- Can deliberative democracy and social choice theory be made compatible? -- Abandoning democratic purity -- Limiting participation -- Conclusion -- An empirical test of social choice and deliberative theories of democracy -- Introduction -- A broad description of the institution -- Case studies: administration and governance of the West, and the location of the Capital -- Case study 1. The Northwest Ordinance of 1784 -- Settlement and distribution of Western lands 1785 -- The Northwest Ordinance 1787 -- Case study 2: The location of the capital -- Conclusion -- Hobbesian sovereignty and the specter of tyranny -- Introduction -- Hobbesian sovereignty -- Hobbes? s intentions.

The capability approach is a versatile framework rooted on issues of justice and multidimensional assessment of quality of life developed in the 1980s as an alternative approach to prevailing mainstream development ideas focused narrowly on economic development. Most closely associated with the work of Amartya Sen, it has become of great interest to development scholars from a variety of different disciplines. Much has already been done exploring the conceptual foundations of the capability approach and discussing Sen's contribution to the field, but few books have explored the links between social choice (another field with rich contributions by Sen) and human development issues. Featuring many of the world's leading experts on social choice theory and capability indicators, Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities combines these interrelated themes into one volume and fully explores the relevance of social choice to human development.