C.B. Macpherson

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C.B. Macpherson is written by William Leiss and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0773582991 (ISBN 10) and 9780773582996 (ISBN 13).

Focusing on two key themes - property and the state - Leiss tracks Macpherson's analysis of the contradictions of liberal-democracy through all of his writings, beginning with his 1935 M.A. thesis supervised by Harold Laski at LSE. His concluding chapter critically examines the core of Macpherson's political philosophy - the distinction between extractive and developmental powers - against the background of social change in the democracies of the West in the period since the end of the Second World War.