Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions

Charles R. Hickson

ISBN 10: 0792378784 / ISBN 13: 9780792378785

Edité par Springer US Jul 2000, 2000

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -In this book, Thompson and Hickson strongly challenge the standard interpretation of the basis of growth and viability of dominant wealthy nations. Briefly, efforts of the economically wealthy and the government leaders to increase their wealth and protect it from aggressors, internal and external, are cast in a new evolutionary light. The challenge is to the idea that societies' leading intellectual formulators of political and social policy have been helpful. Their alternative, and persuasive, interpretation is that the rise and survival of wealthier nations has been achieved because of an `effective democracy'. The authors explain why an effective democratic state must avoid `narrow, short-sighted', rational-appearing concessions to a sequence of aggressors. In short, the Thompson-Hickson interpretation of the rise of wealthy dominant nations does not rely on the advice of superior intellectual advisors, but instead rests on the pragmatic, almost ad hoc, actions of democratic legislators. 432 pp. Englisch.

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• Titre: Ideology and the Evolution of Vital Institutions
• Éditeur: Springer US Jul 2000
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0792378784
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780792378785
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 241 L x 160 H x 28 P (en millimètres) 241 millimètres de largeur par 160 millimètres de hauteur par 28 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 811 grammes

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In this book, Thompson and Hickson strongly challenge the standard interpretation of the basis of growth and viability of dominant wealthy nations. Briefly, efforts of the economically wealthy and the government leaders to increase their wealth and protect it from aggressors, internal and external, are cast in a new evolutionary light. The challenge is to the idea that societies' leading intellectual formulators of political and social policy have been helpful. Their alternative, and persuasive, interpretation is that the rise and survival of wealthier nations has been achieved because of an `effective democracy'.
The authors explain why an effective democratic state must avoid `narrow, short-sighted', rational-appearing concessions to a sequence of aggressors. In short, the Thompson-Hickson interpretation of the rise of wealthy dominant nations does not rely on the advice of superior intellectual advisors, but instead rests on the pragmatic, almost ad hoc, actions of democratic legislators.