"This book looks at how the ideas of freedom, property and order are expressed in modern social contract theories (SCTs). Drawing on the theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls, it studies how notions of freedom promulgated by these SCTs invariably legitimise and defend the private...

Introduction 1. - Part I: Domestic Policy. - Chapter 1: Interaction 21. - Chapter 2: Elections 37. - Chapter 3: Public Health 47. - Chapter 4: Primary Schools 55. - Chapter 5: Employment 67. - Chapter 6: Summary Part I 79. - Part II: Foreign Policy. - Chapter 7: Reciprocity and Assistance 83. -...