Balance of Power: States, Societies and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty

Balance of Power: States, Societies and the Narrow Corridor to Liberty
Daron Acemoglu, James A Robinson
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h234 x 153mm - 560pg
26 Sep 2019 UK
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From the authors of the international bestseller Why Nations Fail, based on decades of research, this powerful new big-picture framework explains how some countries develop towards and provide liberty while others fall to authoritarianism or anarchy - and explains how liberty can thrive despite new threats.Liberty is hardly the 'natural' order of things; usually states have been either too weak to protect individuals or too strong for people to protect themselves from despotism. There is also a happy Western myth that where liberty exists, it's a steady state, arrived at by 'enlightenment'. But liberty emerges only when a delicate and incessant balance is struck between state and society - between elites and citizens, between institutions and norms. This struggle becomes self-reinforcing, inducing both state and society to develop a richer array of capacities - thus affecting how peaceful societies are, how economies are organised and how people experience their daily lives.Explaining this new framework through compelling stories from global history, this masterpiece helps us - with the development of any state plottable on a single diagram - to understand the past and present, and analyse the future.

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