The fourth revolution
Subtitle: the global race to reinvent the state
By: John Micklethwait & Adrian Woodridge
Contributors: Wooldridge, Adrian, author
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780143127604
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: World politics; Nation-state; Social change; East and West; Crisis management in government; Political science; History; Political and social views; Politics and government
Description: Presents the argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. The race to get government right is not just a race of efficiency. It is a race to see which political values will triumph in the twenty-first century--the liberal values of democracy and liberty or the authoritarian values of command and control.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-288) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part One. The Three and a Half Revolutions; title: Thomas Hobbes and the Rise of the Nation-State; title: John Stuart Mill and the Liberal State; title: Beatrice Webb and the Welfare State; title: Milton Friedman's Paradise Lost; title: Part Two. From the West to the East; title: The Seven Deadly Sins; title: and One Great Virtue; title: of California Government; title: The Asian Alternative; title: Part Three. The Winds of Change; title: The Place Where the Future Happened First; title: Fixing Leviathan; title: What Is the State For?; title: Conclusion: The Democratic Deficit.