Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions. It is one in which political regimes ultimately depend on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed by detailed historical research and extensive statistical analysis from the mid-nineteenth century, the study reveals why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also covers the early triumph of democracy in nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America as well as its failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.
发表于2024-12-22
Democracy and Redistribution 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 政治经济学 政治学 比较政治经济学 比较政治 民主与再分配 民主转型 政治经济 民主
"...sweeping in its thematic scope. All should be stimulated by the theoretical debate. Recommended." C.H. Blake, James Madison University, CHOICE
"Anyone interested in the origins of democracy or in contemporary political economy will need to read this important work." Nicolas van de Walle, Cornell University
Distribution and redistribution are the classic questions of Karl Marx and Adam Smith. 忆昔初读时。
评分要知道它怎么对的,要知道它怎么错的。
评分上海世纪出版集团出过中文版的《民主与再分配》(地址是http://book.douban.com/subject/5938077/)。关于资产可动性、税收政策和民主/专制政权性质的讨论真让人大开眼界。数据分析部分更是独特而精巧
评分民主研究的必读
评分早稻田大学Kohno教授的Reading Seminar课上,此书是指定阅读的必读著作之一。每周轮读一册著作的进度,一个学期下来,仍旧觉得此书的水准的确是最好的一部。当然,正如很多人所指出的那样,Boix指出了民主的转型和巩固是一个政治均衡建立的过程,然而在他的模型里更多的强调的是Supply Side,而较少给出Demand Side的讨论,就供需关系平衡的定义本身而言,大抵是可疑的。其次,Boix的再分配模型里假定穷人与富人的zero-sum博弈是建立在所有财富均为私有产品,而生产函数是此类私有产品的L或者K的单调递增,且财富可分,可让渡可转移基础之上的。然而公共经济学的学生也大概会提出同样的不同意见。最后,关于民主制下中位选民决定财富再分配的前提,也是政治经济学里较为传统的一个假定了
Democracy and Redistribution 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书