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Politics is about property, and about property rights.1In Canada, and other OECD industrialized countries, this is clearly the case; and it is largely true for non-OECD countries as well. Other issues are also important, politics is not exclusively about the rights to property, but these rights are central, crucial even to the nature of the political process generally described as liberal democracy. It is one of the great qualities of C.B. Macpherson as a political scientist that he saw this so clearly and was able through his talent for clear exposition to help others to understand it as well.2In his works property rights played a role, from his first book on Social Credit in Alberta3to his powerful short work The Life and Times of Liberal Democracy. 4He also edited a collection of texts called simplyProperty, perhaps so that it would be clear to all what he thought was important.5
It is obviously possible to envisage apre-historical time when “everything was resnulllius(a thing belonging to no one).” See Benn (1967)pp. 491-494.
He is perhaps best know for:Macpherson(1962).
Macpherson (1953).
Macpherson (1977).
Macpherson (1978).
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Cameron, D. (2002). Quasi Democracy. In: McBride, S., Dobuzinskis, L., Cohen, M.G., Busumtwi-Sam, J. (eds) Global Instability. Social Indicators Research Series, vol 13. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0251-6_13
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