Violence and Social Orders : A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History.

By: North, Douglass CContributor(s): Wallis, John Joseph | Weingast, Barry RMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (328 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511515293Subject(s): Social control -- History | State, The -- History | Violence -- Economic aspects -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Violence and Social Orders : A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human HistoryDDC classification: 306.3 LOC classification: HM886 .N67 2009Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE The Conceptual Framework -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Concept of Social Orders: Violence, Institutions, and Organizations -- 1.3 The Logic of the Natural State -- 1.4 The Logic of the Open Access Order -- 1.5 The Logic of the Transition from Natural States to Open Access Orders -- 1.6 A Note on Beliefs -- 1.7 The Plan -- TWO The Natural State -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Commonalities: Characteristics of Limited Access Orders -- 2.2.1 Persons, Personality, Impersonality, Identity, Patronage, and Interest -- 2.2.2 Size, Boundaries, Trade, and Specialization -- 2.3 Differences: A Typology of Natural States -- 2.4 Privileges, Rights, and Elite Dynamics -- 2.5 Origins: The Problem Scale and Violence -- 2.6 Natural State Dynamics: Fragile to Basic Natural States -- 2.7 Moving toMature Natural States: Disorder, Organization, and theMedieval Church -- 2.8 Mature Natural States: France and England in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2.9 Natural States -- APPENDIX: SKELETAL EVIDENCE AND EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- THREE The Natural State Applied: English Land Law -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Chronology -- 3.3 The Courts, Legal Concepts, and the Law of Property -- 3.4 Bastard Feudalism -- 3.5 Bastard Feudalism and the Impersonalization of Property -- 3.6 The Typology of Natural States -- APPENDIX -- A Glossary of Technical Terms involving Land Use -- Estimating Landownership Concentration inMedieval England -- FOUR Open Access Orders -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Commonalities: Characteristics of an Open Access Order -- 4.2.1 Schumpeter's Insight -- 4.3 Institutions, Beliefs, and Incentives Supporting Open Access -- 4.4 Incorporation: The Extension of Citizenship -- 4.5 Control of Violence in Open Access Orders -- 4.6 Growth of Government.
4.7 Forces of Short-Run Stability -- 4.7.1 Elections, Party Competition, and the Civil Society -- 4.7.2 Market Competition -- 4.7.3 Implications -- 4.8 Forces of Long-Run Stability: Adaptive Efficiency -- 4.8.1 Sources of Change in Open Access Orders -- 4.9 Why InstitutionsWork Differently under Open Access than Limited Access -- 4.10 A New "Logic of Collective Action" and Theory of Rent-Seeking -- 4.11 Democracy and Redistribution -- 4.12 Adaptive Efficiency and the Seeming Independence of Economics and Politics in Open Access Orders -- FIVE The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders: The Doorstep Conditions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Personality and Impersonality: The Doorstep Conditions -- 5.3 Doorstep Condition #1: Rule of Law for Elites -- 5.4 Doorstep Condition #2: Perpetually Lived Organizations in the Public and Private Spheres -- 5.4.1 Moving toward the Doorstep in Europe and the United States: Impersonality in Public and Private Organizations -- 5.5 Doorstep Condition #3: Consolidated Control of theMilitary -- 5.6 The British Navy and the British State -- 5.7 Time, Order, and Institutional Forms -- SIX The Transition Proper -- 6.1 Institutionalizing Open Access -- 6.2 Fear of Faction -- 6.3 Events -- 6.4 Parties and Corporations -- 6.5 The Transition to Open Access in Britain -- 6.6 The Transition to Open Access in France -- 6.7 The Transition to Open Access in the United States -- 6.8 Institutionalizing Open Access: Why theWest? -- 6.8.1 Creating the Doorstep Conditions and theWest's Dominance of theWorld -- 6.8.2 The Transition Proper -- SEVEN A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences -- 7.1 The Framing Problems -- 7.2 The Conceptual Framework -- 7.3 A New Approach to the Social Sciences: Violence, Institutions, Organizations, and Beliefs -- 7.4 A New Approach to the Social Sciences: Development and Democracy.
7.5 Toward a Theory of the State -- 7.6 Violence and Social Orders: TheWay Ahead -- References -- Index.
Summary: This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- ONE The Conceptual Framework -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Concept of Social Orders: Violence, Institutions, and Organizations -- 1.3 The Logic of the Natural State -- 1.4 The Logic of the Open Access Order -- 1.5 The Logic of the Transition from Natural States to Open Access Orders -- 1.6 A Note on Beliefs -- 1.7 The Plan -- TWO The Natural State -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Commonalities: Characteristics of Limited Access Orders -- 2.2.1 Persons, Personality, Impersonality, Identity, Patronage, and Interest -- 2.2.2 Size, Boundaries, Trade, and Specialization -- 2.3 Differences: A Typology of Natural States -- 2.4 Privileges, Rights, and Elite Dynamics -- 2.5 Origins: The Problem Scale and Violence -- 2.6 Natural State Dynamics: Fragile to Basic Natural States -- 2.7 Moving toMature Natural States: Disorder, Organization, and theMedieval Church -- 2.8 Mature Natural States: France and England in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries -- 2.9 Natural States -- APPENDIX: SKELETAL EVIDENCE AND EMPIRICAL RESULTS -- THREE The Natural State Applied: English Land Law -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Chronology -- 3.3 The Courts, Legal Concepts, and the Law of Property -- 3.4 Bastard Feudalism -- 3.5 Bastard Feudalism and the Impersonalization of Property -- 3.6 The Typology of Natural States -- APPENDIX -- A Glossary of Technical Terms involving Land Use -- Estimating Landownership Concentration inMedieval England -- FOUR Open Access Orders -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Commonalities: Characteristics of an Open Access Order -- 4.2.1 Schumpeter's Insight -- 4.3 Institutions, Beliefs, and Incentives Supporting Open Access -- 4.4 Incorporation: The Extension of Citizenship -- 4.5 Control of Violence in Open Access Orders -- 4.6 Growth of Government.

4.7 Forces of Short-Run Stability -- 4.7.1 Elections, Party Competition, and the Civil Society -- 4.7.2 Market Competition -- 4.7.3 Implications -- 4.8 Forces of Long-Run Stability: Adaptive Efficiency -- 4.8.1 Sources of Change in Open Access Orders -- 4.9 Why InstitutionsWork Differently under Open Access than Limited Access -- 4.10 A New "Logic of Collective Action" and Theory of Rent-Seeking -- 4.11 Democracy and Redistribution -- 4.12 Adaptive Efficiency and the Seeming Independence of Economics and Politics in Open Access Orders -- FIVE The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders: The Doorstep Conditions -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Personality and Impersonality: The Doorstep Conditions -- 5.3 Doorstep Condition #1: Rule of Law for Elites -- 5.4 Doorstep Condition #2: Perpetually Lived Organizations in the Public and Private Spheres -- 5.4.1 Moving toward the Doorstep in Europe and the United States: Impersonality in Public and Private Organizations -- 5.5 Doorstep Condition #3: Consolidated Control of theMilitary -- 5.6 The British Navy and the British State -- 5.7 Time, Order, and Institutional Forms -- SIX The Transition Proper -- 6.1 Institutionalizing Open Access -- 6.2 Fear of Faction -- 6.3 Events -- 6.4 Parties and Corporations -- 6.5 The Transition to Open Access in Britain -- 6.6 The Transition to Open Access in France -- 6.7 The Transition to Open Access in the United States -- 6.8 Institutionalizing Open Access: Why theWest? -- 6.8.1 Creating the Doorstep Conditions and theWest's Dominance of theWorld -- 6.8.2 The Transition Proper -- SEVEN A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences -- 7.1 The Framing Problems -- 7.2 The Conceptual Framework -- 7.3 A New Approach to the Social Sciences: Violence, Institutions, Organizations, and Beliefs -- 7.4 A New Approach to the Social Sciences: Development and Democracy.

7.5 Toward a Theory of the State -- 7.6 Violence and Social Orders: TheWay Ahead -- References -- Index.

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

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