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CONTENTS: … INTRODUCTION … I. THE USE OF POLITICAL THEORY by John Plamenatz … II. POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY, IDEOLOGY by P. H. Partridge … III. ARE THERE ANY NATURAL RIGHTS? by H. L. A. Hart … IV. THE USES OF ‘SOVEREIGNTY’ by Stanley I. Benn … V. AUTHORITY (1) by R. S. Peters … (2) by Peter Winch … VI. THE PUBLIC INTEREST by Brian Barry … VII. LIBERTY AND EQUALITY by E. F. Carritt … VIII. TWO CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY by Sir Isaiah Berlin … IX. TWO CONCEPTS OF DEMOCRACY by Joseph Schumpeter … X. JUSTICE AND THE COMMON GOOD by Brian Barry … NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS … BIBLIOGRAPHY … INDEX OF NAMES