Schmidtz and Goodin debate the ethical merits of individual versus collective responsibility for welfare.

Some say that public policy can be made without the benefit of theory—that it emerges, instead, through trial-and-error. Others see genuine philosophical issues in public ...

Robert Goodin passionately and cogently defends the welfare state from current attacks by the New Right. But he contends that the welfare state finds false friends in those on ...

This volume illustrates and synthesizes new theories of institutional design recently developed by scholars across a range of disciplines.

This volume illustrates and synthesizes new theories of institutional design recently developed by scholars across a range of disciplines.