The twilight of democracy:
In this age of Democracy Victorious, why have the most successful governments disdained the ideals of America's founding fathers in favor of the sometimes cruel efficiency of authoritarianism? Why have thinly disguised dictatorships like Taiwan and Singapore achieved enormous successes, while t...
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| Zusammenfassung: | In this age of Democracy Victorious, why have the most successful governments disdained the ideals of America's founding fathers in favor of the sometimes cruel efficiency of authoritarianism? Why have thinly disguised dictatorships like Taiwan and Singapore achieved enormous successes, while the West is continually mired in gridlock? Because, Kennon asserts, the world has become so complicated, and the pace of change so rapid, that only highly trained, anonymous technocrats invested with enormous authority are capable of guiding a nation's affairs. To trust unskilled politicians, vulnerable to corruption and ignorant of the most basic rules of governing, with the fate of a nation is, in Kennon's view, the height of folly Like Machiavelli five hundred years ago, Kennon casts a cynical eye on political idealism at a seminal time in history. The Twilight of Democracy will disturb many and anger others, but its argument is so calmly rational, and cogently presented, that no reader will be able to dismiss lightly this daring challenge to conventional wisdom |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 308 S. |
| ISBN: | 038547539X |
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| adam_text | The
Twilight of
Democracy
PATRICKEKENNON
DOUBLEDAY
New York / London / Toronto / Sydney / Auckland
Contents
Introduction ix
PARTONEiTHETRIAD
ANDTHEDEVELOPEDWORLD
1 The Ideas of 1776 and the Road to 1789 ,
2 The March of Specialization 12
3 The Nature of Bureaucracy 19
4 Political Leadership 29
5 Freedom and the Private Sector 39
6 The Triad in the United States 50
7 The Triad in Japan 63
8 Postwar Japan and the United States 76
9 Democracy in the Developed World 89
PARTTWOiNICSANDPOLICESTATES:
THEIMPORTANCEOFTHESECONDWORL
10 The Nature of the Second World 107
11 The Newly Industrialized Countries 115
V I I
viiiCONTENTS
12 A Gallery of Police States, I 125
13 A Gallery of Police States, II 135
14 Democracy and the Second World, I 147
15 Democracy and the Second World, II 155
PARTTHREE:THEDILEMMA
OF THETHIRDWORLD
16 The Nature of the Third World 169
17 The Dynamics of Discontent 178
18 The Roots of Instability: Conquest 187
19 The Roots of Instability: Status 198
20 The Roots of Instability: Religion, I 210
21 The Roots of Instability: Religion, II 222
22 The Roots of Instability: Economics 233
23 Democracy and the Third World 244
PARTFOUR:THETWENTY-FIRSTCENTURY
24 The Marginalization of Democracy 257
25 Tribe and Empire 269
Notes 282
- Index 298
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