In the Shadow of Violence
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Sprache:Englisch
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
15.08.2016
Abbildungen
12 b/w illus. 2 maps 42 tables
Herausgeber
North Douglass C. + weitereVerlag
Cambridge University PressSeitenzahl
378
Maße (L/B/H)
22.9/15.2/2.3 cm
Gewicht
613 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-107-68491-1
This book helps explain how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Until we understand the logic of social arrangements within societies that live in the shadow of violence, we are unlikely to understand how to promote economic and political development. This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and elites as simply corrupt, the case studies illustrate why development is so difficult to achieve in societies where the role of economic organizations is manipulated to provide political balance and stability. The volume develops the idea of limited-access social order as a dynamic social system in which violence is constantly a threat and political and economic outcomes result from the need to control violence rather than promoting economic growth or political rights.
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