Interest groups form an important part of the development of political and social systems.
This book goes beyond current literature in examining the survival and 'careers' of such
groups beyond their formation. The author introduces the concept of organizational form and
develops a framework to describe and evaluate organisations, and uncover how they adapt
to survive. Using example case studies from the UK, US and Australia, the book presents
extensive historical analyses of specific groups, to better understand the organisation and …

Property Theory is the work of two distinguished law professors at Cornell University. Its
intention is to introduce undergraduate students in Law to the key theoretical approaches
that underlie the sorts of disputes and adjudications that eventually manifest themselves in
everyday legal disputes. It is a book of two halves. Having essayed what property is and
what a property theory is in the Introduction, in Part I the authors outline five sorts of property
theory: utilitarian, Lockean/libertarian, Hegelian, Kantian and Aristotelian (the latter being …