Institutions and Democratic Citizenship

ISBN-13: 9780199246663 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 312 str.

Axel Hadenius

Opis

Divided into two parts, this highly informative work first contributes to the debate on democracy's preconditions, then explores the historical development of state structures. Its primary conclusion is that democracy is not the product of social and economic forces, yet, to a greater extent, it is the consequence of prevailing institutional conditions, i.e. the nature of the state. In the second section, Hadenius maintains that the differing modes of state have displayed a variable capacity for governance and economic development. Thus, the evolution of state structures has consequences across broad areas of political and social life.

Recenzje

Hadenius' book presents and discusses one of the most important issues in contemporary social sciences debate: the role of institutions in the process of defining and re-defining modern citizenship.