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The articles cited below are relevant to the content in Issues in Political Theory. Some give background information on the subject as a whole, while others build on information in specific chapters.
Leif Wenar, Original acquisition of private property, Mind 107/428, 1998.
Background information
Brad Hooker, Rule-Consequentialism, Mind XCIX/393, 1990
Background information
Philippa Foot, Utilitarianism and Virtues, Mind XCIV/374, 1985.
Background information
Kenneth Einar Himma: Just 'Cause You're Smarter than Me Doesn't Give You a Right to Tell Me What to Do: Legitimate Authority and the Normal Justification Thesis, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 27/1, 2007.
Relevant to Chapter 1: Political authority and obligation
Owen Fiss, The War Against Terrorism and the Rule of Law, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 26/2, 2006.
Relevant to Chapter 3: War and intervention
Gordon Graham, What is Special About Democracy?, Mind XCII/365, 1983.
Relevant to Chapter 4: Democracy
J. Raz, Principles of Equality, Mind LXXXVII/3, 1978.
Relevant to Chapter 7: Equality and Chapter 8: Social justice
Thomas Nagel, Justice and Nature, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 17/2, 1997.
Relevant to Chapter 7: Equality and Chapter 8: Social justice
Robert E. Goodin, Welfare, Rights and Discretion, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 6/2, 1986.
Relevant to Chapter 8: Social justice
Alan Gewirth, Why Rights are Indispensable, Mind XCV/379, 1986.
Relevant to Chapter 9: Human rights
J. Raz, On the Nature of Rights, Mind XCIII/370, 1984.
Relevant to Chapter 9: Human rights
Matthew H. Kramer and Hillel Steiner, Theories of Rights: Is There a Third Way?, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 27/2, 2007.
Relevant to Chapter 9: Human rights
Heather Lardy, Is there a Right not to Vote?, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 24/2, 2004.
Relevant to Chapter 11: Citizenship
Earl Conee, Metaphysics and the Morality of Abortion, Mind 108/432, 1999.
Relevant to Chapter 12: Gender
Ronald Dworkin, Is there a Right to Pornography?, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 1/2, 1981.
Relevant to Chapter 12: Gender
John Tasioulas, From Utopia to Kazanistan: John Rawls and the Law of Peoples, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 22/2, 2002.
Relevant to Chapter 13: Global justice
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