<p>"Ruth Lane's argument is clear and her style is direct. She succeeds outstandingly well at wending her way through many fraught disciplinary disjunctures … I highly recommend this book to an audience well beyond the usual circuit of readers in contemporary political theory." — Robert Geroux, Perspectives on Politics</p><p>"In this … wide-ranging work, Lane proposes conceiving of political society in a game theoretic context … Offering … insightful readings of figures as diverse as Foucault and Wittgenstein, and an excellent chapter on Thoreau, Lane develops the notion of justice as a game played by individual participants in their everyday relationships … Lane counsels that if all human relationships are political, everyone possesses the opportunities and burdens of sovereignty. Self-government becomes central, and each person bears responsibility for the informal power structures generated by everyday relationships." — CHOICE</p><p>"Lane argues that all politics is very local: it mostly occurs inside the person. What could be more local than her claim that responsibility ultimately lies with the individual? This is a very significant book, both because of its ambition to unite conceptions of justice with strategy, and because of its success in achieving those ambitions." — Michael C. Munger, author of Analyzing Policy: Choices, Conflicts, and Practices</p>