Title: A theory of the state : economic rights, legal rights, and the scope of the state /
Authors: Barzel, Yoram.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: State, The
Abstract: "This book models the emergence of the state and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals are expected to install rulers only after they have created mechanisms to control them. Among the offshoots of the organized protection are a legal system and decision-making procedures that include voting. The initial "state of nature," then, may gradually evolve into a rule-of-law state."--Jacket.