Rawlsian Political Analysis: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Social Science

Acknowledgments

   ix a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s I am particularly grateful to Emily Hauptmann for working with me on earlier stages of this project, for collaborating on the critique of rational choice theory, and for friendship and support throughout. Peter Stone provided very helpful comments on early drafts of several chapters. Email communication with Lucinda Dhavan helped me to get started on the analysis of Bihar. I received very helpful comments on a draft of the first chapter from John Hare, and discussion with Christine Moser helped me to frame the discussion of the economic analysis of climate change. I am grateful to Jonathan Allen for wide-ranging discussions, some in areas touched on here. My chief intellectual debt is, of course, to John Rawls, but I also owe a great deal to Atul Kohli, for his example as a scholar and for what I learned from his books and lectures. I am also very grateful to two anonymous reviewers, one of whom gave particularly helpful suggestions for extensions of the argument found mainly in chapter 2, and to Ann Delgehausen for excellent editing. Some ideas in chapter 3 are found in “The Reasonable and the Rational Capacities in Political Analysis,” an article I co-authored with Emily Hauptmann that appeared in Politics & Society in 2002, and much of the analysis in chapter 5 is found in “A Rawlsian Analysis of the Plight of Bihar,” my article that appeared in Studies in Comparative International Development in 2005. My sister Crispin read early drafts of several chapters and provided many helpful comments. It is hard to express my gratitude to my parents, as it extends in so many directions. I am grateful to my daughter Anna for her interest in Kant and Rawls and for many helpful discussions. More than anyone, I am grateful to my wife, Aedín. Rawlsian Political Analysis ...