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Philip Schofield, Utility and Democracy: the political thought of Jeremy Bentham, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Winner of the WJM Mackenzie Book Prize for 2006, awarded by the for the best book published in political studies.
The judging panel noted:
'Utility and Democracy is in a class by itself, demonstrating a complete command of the subject, and bringing twenty years of careful research to vivid life. Schofield brilliantly unpacks the development of Bentham's thought across a wide range of topics, from his famous principle of utility to his views on constitutional and parliamentary reform in a true tour de force. Schofield's Utility and Democracy will undoubtedly be the leading work on the subject for some years to come.'