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25Christopher McMahon, Authority and Democracy (review)Journal of Business Ethics 17 (11): 1243-1245. 1998.
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23Comments On Hsieh, Moriarty and OosterhoutJournal of Business Ethics 71 (4): 371-379. 2007.A response to the discussants, Nien-hê Hsieh, Jeffrey Moriarty and J. (Hans) van Oosterhout, who took part in the March, 2005 symposium “The Political Theory of Organizations: A Retrospective Examination of Christopher McMahon’s Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management” held in San Francisco as part of the Society for Business Ethics Group Meeting at the Pacific Division Meetings of the American Philosophical Association.
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21Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management (edited book)Princeton University Press. 1994.Should the democratic exercise of authority that we take for granted in the realm of government be extended to the managerial sphere? Exploring this question, Christopher McMahon develops a theory of government and management as two components of an integrated system of social authority that is essentially political in nature. He then considers where in this structure democratic decision making is appropriate. McMahon examines the main varieties of authority: the authority of experts, authority …Read more
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19Nondomination and normativityPacific Philosophical Quarterly 88 (3): 319-327. 2007.In an earlier paper, “The Indeterminacy of Republican Policy,” I argued that in an important class of cases, republican political theory, as formulated by Philip Pettit, does not have determinate implications for policy. Pettit has replied that my argument was based on a conception of freedom as nondomination that is not his own. In the present paper, I explore the two ways of understanding republican freedom. I first suggest that they may not, in the end, be very different. I then note that if …Read more
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18H.E. Mason, ed., Moral Dilemmas and Moral Theory:Moral Dilemmas and Moral TheoryEthics 108 (2): 419-421. 1998.
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18Authority and AutonomyAuthority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and ManagementBusiness Ethics Quarterly 8 (2): 359. 1998.
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14Four: The justification of authorityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 85-127. 1994.
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12Seven: Managerial authority as p-authoritvIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 194-230. 1994.
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10Collective Rationality and Collective ReasoningCambridge University Press. 2001.This book examines the issue of rational cooperation, especially cooperation between people with conflicting moral commitments. The first part considers how the two main aspects of cooperation - the choice by a group of a particular cooperative scheme and the decision by each member to contribute to that scheme - can be understood as guided by reason. The second part explores how the activity of reasoning itself can take a cooperative form. The book is distinctive in offering an account of what …Read more
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7The corruption of play: mapping the ideological play-space of AAA videogamesEmerald Publishing. 2022.AAA videogames often offer expansive experiences to the millions who engage with the medium, but they are vulnerable to disruption from neoliberal structures. The Corruption of Play explores how neoliberal ideology corrupts play in AAA videogames by creating conditions in which play becomes unbound from leisure, allowing play to be understood, undertaken, and assessed in economic terms, and fundamentally undermining the nature of play. Providing a cutting-edge and innovative approach to this pro…Read more
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7Discourse EthicsIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, Blackwell. 2013.
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7Expression Arguments in EthicsPacific Philosophical Quarterly 69 (4): 325-341. 1988.Rawls and Nagel have suggested as a reason to act as morality requires is that we thereby express our nature as free and equal persons. The paper attempts describe the logic of such claims
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7Eight: Managerial authority as c-authorityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 231-257. 1994.
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7Three: Moral principles and social factsIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 52-84. 1994.
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7FrontmatterIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. 1994.
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6Reasonableness and Fairness: A Historical TheoryCambridge University Press. 2016.We all know, or think we know, what it means to say that something is 'reasonable' or 'fair', but what exactly are these concepts and how have they evolved and changed over the course of history? In this book, Christopher McMahon explores reasonableness, fairness, and justice as central concepts of the morality of reciprocal concern. He argues that the basis of this morality evolves as history unfolds, so that forms of interaction that might have been morally acceptable in the past are judged un…Read more
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5IndexIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 303-310. 1994.
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4Organizations and business ethicsIn Alan R. Malachowski (ed.), Business ethics: critical perspectives on business and management, Routledge. pp. 1--4. 2001.
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4Nine: Managerial democracyIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 258-292. 1994.
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4Six: Management and moralityIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 169-193. 1994.
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4Works citedIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 293-302. 1994.
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2ContentsIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. 1994.
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2Five: DemocracyIn Authority and Democracy: A General Theory of Government and Management, Princeton University Press. pp. 128-166. 1994.
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