The Thai and Chinese cases, as well as the nineteenth-century European ones, suggest that the size of the middle class relative to the rest of the society is one important variable in determining how...
Interest groups exercise influence way out of proportion to their place in society, distort both taxes and spending, and raise overall deficit levels through their ability to manipulate the budget in...
Human beings cooperate to compete and compete to cooperate.
That an ethnically divided posttotalitarian state should not make an easy transition to liberal democracy seems obvious to many people in hindsight.
Human beings cooperate in order to compete, and compete to cooperate.
فالاشتراكية إذن لم تعد مغرية كنموذج اقتصادي للدول النامية أكثر مما هي مغرية للمجتمعات الصناعية المتقدمة.
When an American thinks about the problem of government-building, he directs himself not to the creation of authority and the accumulation of power but rather the limitation of authority and the divis...
The obligation to respect universal human rights has been voluntarily undertaken by most countries around the world, and rightly so. But all liberal democracies are built on top of states, whose juris...
ي نهاية التاريخ ليس ثمة منافسون أيديولوجيون للديموقراطية الليبيرالية، و قد رفض الناس في الماضي هذه الديموقراطية الليبيرالية لاعتقادهم أن الملكية و الارستوقراطية و الثيوقراطية أو الحكومة الدينية و الشم...
The main problem facing immigrant communities was to change the sort of sociability they practiced from an ascriptive to a voluntary form. That is, the traditional social structures they brought with...
It was only Frederick’s enormous skill as a military commander and outright luck (the accession of Peter III to the Russian throne) that saved the state and allowed it to remain a major European playe...
He was said to have liquidated countless affluent households, particularly in the Yangtze delta, where he believed he faced particularly strong opposition.5 The
Forgetting, I would even say historical error, is essential to the creation of a nation, which is why the advance of historical study often poses a threat to nationality.
The left stopped thinking several decades ago about ambitious social policies that might help remedy the underlying conditions of the poor. It was easier to talk about respect and dignity than to come...
In some sense, it was the tyranny of cousins that allowed Indians to resist the tyranny of tyrants.
While the economic inequalities arising from the last fifty or so years of globalization are a major factor explaining contemporary politics, economic grievances become much more acute when they are a...
To deceive the state, strangers, or even associates is accepted, and often applauded as evidence of cleverness.
The psychological dislocation engendered by the transition from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft laid the basis for an ideology of nationalism based on an intense nostalgia for an imagined past of strong...
The English race, consequently, has long and successfully studied the art of curbing executive power to the constant neglect of the art of perfecting executive methods. It has exercised itself much mo...
Economists agree that all taxes potentially detract from the ability of markets to allocate resources efficiently, and the least inefficient types of taxation are those that are simple, uniform, and p...