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A theory of the state : economic rights, legal rights, and the scope of the state / Yoram Barzel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Political economy of institutions and decisionsPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002Description: xiii, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0521806054
  • 9780521806053
  • 0521000645
  • 9780521000642
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.1 21
LOC classification:
  • JC11 .B385 2002
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 1. The Emergence of Protection and Third-Party Enforcement. 2. The State and the Enforcement of Agreements. 3. Third-Party Enforcement and the State. 4. The Choice among Enforcement Forms. 5. Anonymous Exchange, Mixed Enforcement, and Vertical Integration. 6. Jurisdictional Issues. 7. Collective Action and Collective Decisions. 8. Tying the Protector's Hands: The Agreement between Subjects and Protector -- 2. The Emergence of Legal Institutions. 9. Legal Rights. 10. The State's Enhancement of Market Trade. 11. The Size and Scope of the State -- 3. The Character of the State. 11. Merger and Local Autonomy. 13. The Distinction between "Legitimate" and "Criminal" States. 14. Power, Violent Conflict, and Political Evolution. 15. The Time Path of Change under Dictatorships and under Rule-of-Law Regimes. 16. Recapitulation and an Epilogue.
Review: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.

1. Introduction -- 1. The Emergence of Protection and Third-Party Enforcement. 2. The State and the Enforcement of Agreements. 3. Third-Party Enforcement and the State. 4. The Choice among Enforcement Forms. 5. Anonymous Exchange, Mixed Enforcement, and Vertical Integration. 6. Jurisdictional Issues. 7. Collective Action and Collective Decisions. 8. Tying the Protector's Hands: The Agreement between Subjects and Protector -- 2. The Emergence of Legal Institutions. 9. Legal Rights. 10. The State's Enhancement of Market Trade. 11. The Size and Scope of the State -- 3. The Character of the State. 11. Merger and Local Autonomy. 13. The Distinction between "Legitimate" and "Criminal" States. 14. Power, Violent Conflict, and Political Evolution. 15. The Time Path of Change under Dictatorships and under Rule-of-Law Regimes. 16. Recapitulation and an Epilogue.

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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