The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of LibertyPenguin, 24. ruj 2019. - Broj stranica: 576 "Why is it so difficult to develop and sustain liberal democracy? The best recent work on this subject comes from a remarkable pair of scholars, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. In their latest book, The Narrow Corridor, they have answered this question with great insight." -Fareed Zakaria, The Washington Post From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats. In Why Nations Fail, Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson argued that countries rise and fall based not on culture, geography, or chance, but on the power of their institutions. In their new book, they build a new theory about liberty and how to achieve it, drawing a wealth of evidence from both current affairs and disparate threads of world history. Liberty is hardly the "natural" order of things. In most places and at most times, the strong have dominated the weak and human freedom has been quashed by force or by customs and norms. Either states have been too weak to protect individuals from these threats, or states have been too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. Liberty emerges only when a delicate and precarious balance is struck between state and society. There is a Western myth that political liberty is a durable construct, arrived at by a process of "enlightenment." This static view is a fantasy, the authors argue. In reality, the corridor to liberty is narrow and stays open only via a fundamental and incessant struggle between state and society: The authors look to the American Civil Rights Movement, Europe’s early and recent history, the Zapotec civilization circa 500 BCE, and Lagos’s efforts to uproot corruption and institute government accountability to illustrate what it takes to get and stay in the corridor. But they also examine Chinese imperial history, colonialism in the Pacific, India’s caste system, Saudi Arabia’s suffocating cage of norms, and the “Paper Leviathan” of many Latin American and African nations to show how countries can drift away from it, and explain the feedback loops that make liberty harder to achieve. Today we are in the midst of a time of wrenching destabilization. We need liberty more than ever, and yet the corridor to liberty is becoming narrower and more treacherous. The danger on the horizon is not "just" the loss of our political freedom, however grim that is in itself; it is also the disintegration of the prosperity and safety that critically depend on liberty. The opposite of the corridor of liberty is the road to ruin. |
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... society relations in central and eastern Europe . This introductory chapter begins by reviewing the existing debate on military - society relations and laying out a framework for interpreting new patterns of military - society relations ...
... society relations in central and eastern Europe . This introductory chapter begins by reviewing the existing debate on military - society relations and laying out a framework for interpreting new patterns of military - society relations ...
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... society) (Senellart, 1995). For Foucault, war is a regulative instrument of power relations both inside and outside society. In developed societies, the discourse of war is articulated through extremely complex practices that end up ...
... society) (Senellart, 1995). For Foucault, war is a regulative instrument of power relations both inside and outside society. In developed societies, the discourse of war is articulated through extremely complex practices that end up ...
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... Society was the pioneer of the modern hereditary , patriotic Society , and its influences led to the formation of all of them . Some of these constitutions , with the circulars and bulletins of the California Society , were sent , year ...
... Society was the pioneer of the modern hereditary , patriotic Society , and its influences led to the formation of all of them . Some of these constitutions , with the circulars and bulletins of the California Society , were sent , year ...
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... Society , for several years , that Telang's papers on antiquarian subjects have left behind " material enough to make the Society distinguished for generations to come . " " " " " After an interval of Organ Recital letters of ...
... Society , for several years , that Telang's papers on antiquarian subjects have left behind " material enough to make the Society distinguished for generations to come . " " " " " After an interval of Organ Recital letters of ...
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... Society are sent into foreign fields to aid in these mission presses . There is a mission press in Mexico ; the original press of Mexico was purchased by the Tract Society . It has been superseded by a larger one since , for which the ...
... Society are sent into foreign fields to aid in these mission presses . There is a mission press in Mexico ; the original press of Mexico was purchased by the Tract Society . It has been superseded by a larger one since , for which the ...
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THE RED QUEEN | 33 |
WILL TO POWER | 74 |
ECONOMICs OUTSIDE THE CORRIDOR | 97 |
All EGORY OF GOOD GOVERNMENT | 126 |
The EUROPEAN SCISSORS | 152 |
MANDATE OF HEAVEN | 201 |
BROKEN RED QUEEN | 237 |
DEWil in the DETAiLS | 266 |
WAHHABs CHILDREN | 370 |
RED QUEEN out of contRol | 390 |
into the corridor | 427 |
living witH THE LEviathAN | 464 |
Acknowledgments | 497 |
Bibliographic Essay | 499 |
Sources for Maps | 517 |
References | 519 |
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The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Ograničeni pregled - 2019 |
The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Ograničeni pregled - 2020 |
The Narrow Corridor: How Nations Struggle for Liberty Daron Acemoglu,James A. Robinson Pregled nije dostupan - 2019 |
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