A. Somit

The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution

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Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures. Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure. The authors argue that mo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Peterson, S.

ISBN: 978-1-4039-7842-4
EAN: 9781403978424
Produktnummer: 13881462
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 159 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 850 KB
Auflage: 2005
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

ALBERT SOMIT is Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University, USA. He has served as Executive Vice-President of SUNY-Buffalo and President of Southern Illinois University. He is a pioneer of biopolitics.STEVEN A. PETERSON is Professor of Politics, Penn State University at Harrisburg, USA and Director of its School of Public Affairs. He has authored or edited 15 books, mostly in the area of public policy. His research interests include political behaviour, political psychology, and biology and politics.