Alien Rule

This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair.

Sommario

1. Introduction; 2. Alien rule and its discontents; 3. The failure of legitimate rule in Iraq; 4. Resistance to alien rule in Taiwan and Korea; 5. Dynamics of military occupation; 6. Academic receivership as alien rule Gail Dubrow and Debra Friedman; 7. Conclusion.

Info autore

Michael Hechter is Foundation Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington. Author of Internal Colonialism: The Celtic Fringe in British National Development, Principles of Group Solidarity, and Containing Nationalism, he has edited five books and written numerous articles in academic journals. A Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his works have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, Polish, Spanish, Arabic, Romanian, Hungarian, and Georgian.

Riassunto

This book argues that alien rule can become legitimate to the degree that it provides governance that is both effective and fair. Governance is effective to the degree that citizens have access to an expanding economy and fair to the degree that rulers act according to the strictures of procedural justice.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Michael Hechter, Michael (Arizona State University) Hechter, Hechter Michael
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2013
• EAN: 9781107617148
• ISBN: 978-1-107-61714-8
• Pagine: 218
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Management; Corporate Governance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, Politics & government, Comparative Politics