The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution [electronic resource] / by A. Somit, S. Peterson.
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781403978424
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
DK/22201
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2005.
Yayın Bilgisi
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XIII, 159 p. online resource.
Özet, vb.
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 money and energy devoted to nation-building around the globe by the U.S. would be better spent on problems facing the country domestically.
Konu
Economic development.
International relations.
Political science.
Development Studies.
International Relations.
Political Science.
Political Theory.
International relations.
Political science.
Development Studies.
International Relations.
Political Science.
Political Theory.
Diğer Yazarlar
Kurum Adı
