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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... United States, 5 per 100,000, or over 1,000 times that in Norway, about 0.5 per 100,000. Archaeological evidence from premodern societies is consistent with this level of violence. We should pause to take in the significance of these ...
... United States, 5 per 100,000, or over 1,000 times that in Norway, about 0.5 per 100,000. Archaeological evidence from premodern societies is consistent with this level of violence. We should pause to take in the significance of these ...
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... united, to dispossess and deprive him, not only of the fruit of his labour, but also of his life, or liberty. Remarkably, Hobbes anticipated Pettit's argument on dominance, noting that just the threat of violence can be pernicious, even ...
... united, to dispossess and deprive him, not only of the fruit of his labour, but also of his life, or liberty. Remarkably, Hobbes anticipated Pettit's argument on dominance, noting that just the threat of violence can be pernicious, even ...
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... United Nations, and the international community looks to them to enforce laws, resolve conflicts, and protect their citizens. It confers on them official respect. Just as Hobbes envisaged, whatever their origins and path to power ...
... United Nations, and the international community looks to them to enforce laws, resolve conflicts, and protect their citizens. It confers on them official respect. Just as Hobbes envisaged, whatever their origins and path to power ...
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... Wyoming was created by the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, which called for the construction of a railroad to connect the eastern and western United States. The Union Pacific was built west from the Missouri 24 - THE NARROW corridor.
... Wyoming was created by the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862, which called for the construction of a railroad to connect the eastern and western United States. The Union Pacific was built west from the Missouri 24 - THE NARROW corridor.
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... United States Public Land Commission in 1879. “Away from settlements the shotgun is the only law." As the cattle spread, conflicts between ranchers and homesteaders grew, and the reaction of the cattlemen led to the Johnson County Range ...
... United States Public Land Commission in 1879. “Away from settlements the shotgun is the only law." As the cattle spread, conflicts between ranchers and homesteaders grew, and the reaction of the cattlemen led to the Johnson County Range ...
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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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