The Three Ages of Government : From the Person, to the Group, to the World /
It is only in the last 250 years that ordinary people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens rather than subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, a result of the foundations of democracy laid in the age of revolutions. A century later local governments...
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University of Michigan Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: What is government
- Understanding government in society: The past fifty years
- Government today
- What positions can state and government occupy in society?
- What roles can government play in society? Government's political revolution
- Trends in the role of government in society
- How the study of public administration contributes to understanding government
- Why study this?
- Government in society: The conceptual and historical context for understanding government
- Opening Salvo: On the torture of holistic scholarship
- Government as artifice of bounded rationality: Simon and Vico
- Social ontology for understanding institutional arrangements
- Hierarchies of knowledge: From simple to complex phenomena
- Government as function of instinct, community, and society
- Institutional changes and the triple whammy
- Changes at the constitutional level
- Changes at the collective level
- Changes at the operational level
- Enter the triple whammy: Industrialization, urbanization, and rapid population growth
- The stage is set for the remainder of this book
- Instinct and intent: Origins and elements of human governing behaviors
- The nature-nurture issue: From dichotomy to balanced complex
- Sociality among the great apes and humans: Similarities and differences
- Similarities
- Differences
- Physical and social features of the Hominin tribe
- Human instinct and intent
- How we differ from primates: Governing among and of hunter-gatherers
- Conflicting impulses underlying governing arrangements
- Concluding comments: Relevance to understanding what government is
- Tribal community: Governing humans in ever larger, sedentary groups
- The growth, dispersion, and concentration of the human species
- The agricultural revolution: Fraud or inevitable?
- Small and large-scale governing arrangements: Four main phases of socioeconomic development, three structuring constants, and and two governing revolutions
- The rise and fall of governing arrangements: Self-governing capacity as the default
- The political-administrative revolution since the 1780s : A very brief recap
- The triple whammy plus high-speed communication technology
- From government as instrument to government as container: The role and position of the individual
- Citizen and government in a global society: Globalization and the deep current of rationalization
- What is globalization? What is a global society?
- The impact of globalization on people as citizens and as public officeholders
- The impact of globalization on the structure and functioning of government
- The impact of globalization on the role and position of government
- Understanding globalization: The deep current of rationalization and its manifestation(s)
- How can citizens and governments deal with globalization and the perversions of rationalization?
- Governing as process: Negotiable authority and multisource decision-making
- The role and position of career civil servants in democratic political systems
- The nature of public authority
- Negotiable authority as key to understanding what democratic government is today
- The nature of public decision-making
- Multisource decision making as standard in democratic government
- The governing we can take for granted
- Citizens and government have come a long way in a very short time
- Democracy: Thriving by self-restraint, vulnerable to human instinct, tribal community, and global society
- The position and role of government in society
- The influence of human instinct
- The influence of tribal community
- The influence of global society
- Democracy as ideal and as vulnerable: Challenges from human behavior
- Democracy as ideal political system
- Declining trust in government
- Rent-seeking behavior by private actors: Business principles in the public realm
- Personality politics and populism: The enduring power of emotions
- Na-na-na-na-boo-boo politics: The price of polarization and partisanship
- The need for continuous civics education
- Democracy and bureaucracy: The delicate interplay of fairness and efficiency
- Democracy, self-restraint, and true guardians.