Bøker av Bryan S. Turner

This collection addresses the preconditions of democratic rule, the state this form of governance is in, and the changing ways in which citizens can (still) act as the sovereign in liberal democratic societies.

A volume in a set of monographs which present a broad and comprehensive consideration of European views on Weber's relevance to twentieth century sociology.

In arguing for a recognition of human rights as ontologically grounded in shared vulnerability, the author pays attention to the complex relationships among the state, the social rights of citizens that the state creates, and the human rights of persons as individuals.