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Lädt ... Political Order and Inequality (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) (2015. Auflage)von Carles Boix (Autor)
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The fundamental question of political theory, one that precedes all other questions about the nature of political life, is why there is a state at all. Is human cooperation feasible without a political authority enforcing it? Or do we need a state to live together? This problem then opens up two further questions. If a state is necessary to establish order, how does it come into place? And, when it does, what are the consequences for the political status and economic welfare of its citizens? Combining ethnographical material, historical cases, and statistical analysis, this book describes the foundations of stateless societies, why and how states emerge, and the basis of political obligation. As a result of this inquiry, it explains the economic and political roots of inequality, describes the causes of the stagnation of the preindustrial world, and explores what led to the West's prosperity of the past two centuries. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This quasi-historical sketch of producers and looters is a bit too unrealistic to really be interesting. In my opinion it is actually a bit unnecessary, because the latter chapters of the book in fact provide an interesting discussion of inequality which would have stood its ground well even without the sketchy general framework. The author draws on a broad range of historical, anthropological and archaeological evidence as he discusses the basic dilemma of inequality: when somebody innovates and produces more efficiently than others, the resulting advantage can either be blocked or accepted by the other members of society. Economic growth is stifled if the advantage is blocked, but accepting growth leads to economic inequality.
So despite my misgivings about the overly formalized quasi-historical theorizing in the first chapters, this actually turned out to be a fairly enlightening book. I would personally have preferred a bit more emphasis on descriptive anthropological review and less on mathematical correlation factors, but the time I spent on this book was still worthwhile.