Research Catalog

Title

The rise and fall of political orders / Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London.

Author

Lebow, Richard Ned

Publication

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Description

x, 436 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

Drawing on political theory, comparative politics, international relations, psychology, and classics, Ned Lebow offers insights into why social and political orders form, how they evolve, and why and how they decline. Following The Tragic Vision of Politics and A Cultural Theory of International Relations, this book thus completes Lebow's trilogy with an original theory of political order. He identifies long-and short-term threats to political order that are associated respectively with shifts in the relative appeal of principles of justice and lack of self-restraint by elites. Two chapters explore the consequences of late modernity for democracy in the United States, and another chapter, co-authored with Martin Dimitrov, the consequences for authoritarianism in China. The Rise and Fall of Political Orders forges new links between political theory and political science via the explicit connection it makes between normative goals and empirical research.

Subject

• State, The > History
• Order > History
• Comparative government > History
• Democracy > History
• Comparative government
• Democracy
• Order
• State, The

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-423) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- 1. Political Order -- 2. Justice, Solidarity, and Order -- 3. Why Do Orders Form? -- 4. Why Do Orders Break Down? -- 5. The United States: Self-Interest -- 6. The United States: Fairness vs. Equality -- 7. Georgian Britain -- 8. China (Co-authored with Martin K. Dimitrov) -- 9. Order Revisited -- 10. The Crises of Modernity.

Call Number

JFE 19-477

ISBN

• 9781108472869
• 1108472869
• 9781108460682
• 1108460682

LCCN

2018014875

OCLC

1032356967

Author

Lebow, Richard Ned, author.

Title

The rise and fall of political orders / Richard Ned Lebow, King's College London.

Publisher

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-423) and index.

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781108614665

Research Call Number

JFE 19-477