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Informationen zum Autor Dennis C. Mueller is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Vienna. His main research interests are public choice, industrial economics, and constitutional political economy. He is the author of many articles and several books, including Public Choice III (Cambridge University Press, 2003), The Corporation (2003), and Constitutional Democracy (1996). Mueller is a past president of the U.S. and European Public Choice Societies, the Southern Economic Association, the Industrial Organization Society, the European Association for Research in Industrial Economics, and the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society. Klappentext This book emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships. Zusammenfassung Emphasizes the difference between religion and science as means for understanding causal relationships! but it focuses more heavily on the challenge religious extremism poses for liberal democratic institutions. It discusses human psychology as well as the salient characteristics of all religions! and contrasts religion and science as systems of thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Liberal democracy; Part I. Fundamentals: Evolution, Psychology, Reasoning and Religion: 2. Evolution, psychology and reason; 3. Religion; Part II. An Historical Look at the State, Democracy and Religion: 4. The first states; 5. Athens and Rome; 6. The Caliphate; 7. The Renaissance; 8. The Enlightenment; 9. Religion and democracy after the French revolution; Part III. The Institutions of Liberal Democracy: 10. Democracy and citizenship; 11. Rights; 12. Education, citizenship, immigration and democracy; Part IV. Challenges to Liberal Democracy: 13. Democracy and religion; 14. Building and protecting Liberal democracy.
