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This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about
a little-known subject, the theory of voting' (from the Editors'
Introduction).
This book has been edited from the manuscripts of the late Scottish
economist Duncan Black. Shortly after the publication of The Theory
of Committees and Elections Black started to collect material for
papers and a book on Lewis Carroll's theory of proportional
representation. Black's chapter plans made it clear that the book
was to be in three parts, written by himself, followed by a reprint
of Carroll's Principles of Parliamentary Representation and its
main sources. Part I is biographical, introducing Lewis Carroll and
giving relevant details of his life. Part II is Black's already
published work on Lewis Carroll. Part III comprises the more
detailed arguments about Carroll's reasoning, and Part IV contains
reprints of rare original material on proportional representation
by Carroll, James Garth Marshall, and Walter Baily. Taken together,
the editors have provided a complete reference source for the
theory of voting and proportional representation.
R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of
great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no
pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded
search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first
degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics and physics.
Mathematics as taught at Glasgow seems to have been designed for
engineers and did not excite him and he switched to economics,
which he found more congenial. But it was not in a lecture in
economics but in one on politics that he found his star. One
lecturer, A. K. White, discussed the possibility of constructing a
pure science of politics. This question caught his imagination,
perhaps because of his earlier training in physics, and it came to
absorb his thoughts for the rest of his life. But almost certainly
nothing would have come of it were it not for his appointment to
the newly formed Dundee School of Economics where the rest of the.
teaching staff came from the London School of Economics. At
Glasgow, economics, as in the time of Adam Smith, was linked with
moral philosophy. At Dundee, Black was introduced to the analytical
x The Theory o/Committees and Elections approach dominant at the
London School of Economics. This gave him the approach he used in
his attempt to construct a pure science of politics."
This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America of
national Truth and Reconciliation commissions. Few studies have
examined the role of Churches or religion in political processes
that proclaim valued theological terms as their agenda - truth,
forgiveness, and reconciliation. This book questions the role of
religion, specifically of established Churches. The impact of such
reconciliation commissions on Indigenous Native Americans is also
examined, as is the role of women and how both commissions and
Churches or religions were challenged by their experiences. The
contributors offer differing perspectives on one or more national
truth and reconciliation processes and thus offer a collection that
serves as valuable source for the disciplines of Religious Studies,
Ethics, Theology, Political Science, Social Sciences and Women's
Studies.
This book examines the recent phenomenon in Latin America of
National Truth and Reconciliation commissions. Few studies have
examined the role of Churches of religion in political processes
that proclaim valued theological terms as their agenda - truth,
forgiveness, and reconciliation. This book questions the role of
religion, specifically of established Churches. The impact of such
reconciliation commissions on Indigenous Native Americans is also
examined, as is the role of women and how both Commissions and
Churches or religions were challenged by their experiences. The
contributors offer differing perspectives on one or more national
truth and reconciliation processes and thus offer a collection that
serves as valuable source for the disciplines of Religious Studies,
Ethics, Theology, Political Science, Social Sciences and Women's
Studies.
R. H. Coase Duncan Black was a close and dear friend. A man of
great simplicity, un worldly, modest, diffident, with no
pretensions, he was devoted to scholarship. In his single-minded
search for the truth, he is an example to us all. Black's first
degree at the University of Glasgow was in mathematics and physics.
Mathematics as taught at Glasgow seems to have been designed for
engineers and did not excite him and he switched to economics,
which he found more congenial. But it was not in a lecture in
economics but in one on politics that he found his star. One
lecturer, A. K. White, discussed the possibility of constructing a
pure science of politics. This question caught his imagination,
perhaps because of his earlier training in physics, and it came to
absorb his thoughts for the rest of his life. But almost certainly
nothing would have come of it were it not for his appointment to
the newly formed Dundee School of Economics where the rest of the.
teaching staff came from the London School of Economics. At
Glasgow, economics, as in the time of Adam Smith, was linked with
moral philosophy. At Dundee, Black was introduced to the analytical
x The Theory o/Committees and Elections approach dominant at the
London School of Economics. This gave him the approach he used in
his attempt to construct a pure science of politics."
This is a book about a well-known writer, Lewis Carroll, and about
a little-known subject, the theory of voting' (from the Editors'
Introduction).
This book has been edited from the manuscripts of the late Scottish
economist Duncan Black. Shortly after the publication of The Theory
of Committees and Elections Black started to collect material for
papers and a book on Lewis Carroll's theory of proportional
representation. Black's chapter plans made it clear that the book
was to be in three parts, written by himself, followed by a reprint
of Carroll's Principles of Parliamentary Representation and its
main sources. Part I is biographical, introducing Lewis Carroll and
giving relevant details of his life. Part II is Black's already
published work on Lewis Carroll. Part III comprises the more
detailed arguments about Carroll's reasoning, and Part IV contains
reprints of rare original material on proportional representation
by Carroll, James Garth Marshall, and Walter Baily. Taken together,
the editors have provided a complete reference source for the
theory of voting and proportional representation.
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