The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State
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Vydavatel: | Allen Lane (UK) |
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Jazyk: | angličtina |
Publikováno: | 05/2014 |
Formát: | vázané |
Anotace
In The Fourth Revolution, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge
ask: what is the state actually for? Their remarkable book
describes the three great revolutions in its history, and the
fourth which is happening now. In most of the states of the West,
disillusion with government has become endemic. Gridlock in
America; anger in much of Europe; cynicism in Britain; decreasing
legitimacy everywhere. Most of us are resigned to the fact that
nothing is ever going to change. But as John Micklethwait and
Adrian Wooldridge show us in this galvanising book, this is a
seriously limited view of things. In response to earlier crises in
government, there have been three great revolutions, which have
brought about in turn the nation-state, the liberal state and the
welfare state. In each, Europe and America have set the example. We
are now, they argue, in the midst of a fourth revolution in the
history of the nation-state, but this time the Western way is in
danger of being left behind. The Fourth Revolution brings the
crisis into full view and points toward our future. The authors
enjoy extraordinary access to influential figures and forces the
world over, and the book is a global tour of the innovators. The
front lines are in Chinese-oriented Asia, where experiments in
state-directed capitalism and authoritarian modernization have
ushered in an astonishing period of development. Other emerging
nations are producing striking new ideas, from Brazil's conditional
cash-transfer welfare system to India's application of
mass-production techniques in hospitals. These governments have not
by any means got everything right, but they have embraced the
spirit of active reform and reinvention which in the past has
provided so much of the West's comparative advantage. The race is
not just one of efficiency, but one to see which political values
will triumph in the twenty-first century: the liberal values of
democracy and freedom or the authoritarian values of command and
control. ...
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