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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Polity Press
ISBN-10
1509563156
ISBN-13
9781509563159
eBay Product ID (ePID)
15065008822
Product Key Features
Book Title
Assault on the State : How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future
Number of Pages
182 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2024
Topic
World / General, World / European
Genre
Political Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
13.6 Oz
Item Length
8.6 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2023-951143
Reviews
"A powerful and important account of attacks on the administrative state by elected officials in the West. A must-read for anyone troubled by the state of democracy in our world." Elton Skendaj, Georgetown University "A thoughtful and probing discussion of the great challenges facing the democratic state. Powerful and exceptionally well-researched, The Assault on the State has enormous implications for governance in the modern era." Don Kettl, The University of Texas at Austin, "A powerful and important account of attacks on the administrative state by elected officials in the West. A must-read for anyone troubled by the state of democracy in our world." -- Elton Skendaj, Georgetown University "A thoughtful and probing discussion of the great challenges facing the democratic state. Powerful and exceptionally well-researched, The Assault on the State has enormous implications for governance in the modern era." -- Don Kettl, The University of Texas at Austin "Every once in a while, a book comes along that fundamentally reshapes how we think about the central problems facing our societies. This is that kind of book. With verve and sparkling clarity, Hanson and Kopstein make clear that the assault on the modern state is a phenomenon with global reverberations. This is an essential book - to defend the values of liberalism and democracy, we need to defend the modern state itself." -- Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, co-author Tyranny of the Minority "An incisive, thoughtful, and spirited analysis of how personalist rule is assaulting and replacing the state - and what we can do about it. A must-read." -- Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University "An extraordinarily important book." -- James Goldgeier, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution "In this sobering book, Hanson and Kopstein cogently explain why defending the administrative state from would-be political 'father figures' is the key battle of our times." -- Juliet Johnson, McGill University "short, clearly written and dreadfully important. It does not advocate this or that political or economic theory. It does not even particularly defend democracy. It gives us the unwelcome but unavoidable news that state bureaucracy - the thing we love to hate, the pantomime villain of politics, the second best source of jokes after mothers-in-law - is crucial to our happiness, freedom and well-being, and is in mortal danger." --Francis Beckett, The Spectator, "A powerful and important account of attacks on the administrative state by elected officials in the West. A must-read for anyone troubled by the state of democracy in our world." -- Elton Skendaj, Georgetown University "A thoughtful and probing discussion of the great challenges facing the democratic state. Powerful and exceptionally well-researched, The Assault on the State has enormous implications for governance in the modern era." -- Don Kettl, The University of Texas at Austin "Every once in a while, a book comes along that fundamentally reshapes how we think about the central problems facing our societies. This is that kind of book. With verve and sparkling clarity, Hanson and Kopstein make clear that the assault on the modern state is a phenomenon with global reverberations. This is an essential book - to defend the values of liberalism and democracy, we need to defend the modern state itself." -- Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, co-author Tyranny of the Minority "An incisive, thoughtful, and spirited analysis of how personalist rule is assaulting and replacing the state - and what we can do about it. A must-read." -- Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University "An extraordinarily important book." -- James Goldgeier, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution "In this sobering book, Hanson and Kopstein cogently explain why defending the administrative state from would-be political 'father figures' is the key battle of our times." -- Juliet Johnson, McGill University, "A powerful and important account of attacks on the administrative state by elected officials in the West. A must-read for anyone troubled by the state of democracy in our world." -- Elton Skendaj, Georgetown University "A thoughtful and probing discussion of the great challenges facing the democratic state. Powerful and exceptionally well-researched, The Assault on the State has enormous implications for governance in the modern era." -- Don Kettl, The University of Texas at Austin "Every once in a while, a book comes along that fundamentally reshapes how we think about the central problems facing our societies. This is that kind of book. With verve and sparkling clarity, Hanson and Kopstein make clear that the assault on the modern state is a phenomenon with global reverberations. This is an essential book - to defend the values of liberalism and democracy, we need to defend the modern state itself." -- Daniel Ziblatt, Harvard University, co-author Tyranny of the Minority "An incisive, thoughtful, and spirited analysis of how personalist rule is assaulting and replacing the state - and what we can do about it. A must-read." -- Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University "An extraordinarily important book." -- James Goldgeier, Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution "In this sobering book, Hanson and Kopstein cogently explain why defending the administrative state from would-be political 'father figures' is the key battle of our times." -- Juliet Johnson, McGill University "short, clearly written and dreadfully important. It does not advocate this or that political or economic theory. It does not even particularly defend democracy. It gives us the unwelcome but unavoidable news that state bureaucracy - the thing we love to hate, the pantomime villain of politics, the second best source of jokes after mothers-in-law - is crucial to our happiness, freedom and well-being, and is in mortal danger." --Francis Beckett, The Spectator "Hanson and Kopstein persuasively argue that the long-term impact of this global backlash against 'unelected bureaucrats' will lead not to freer societies but to ones marked by corrupt and personalistic authoritarian rule." -- Foreign Affairs "...deserves wide attention." -- The Atlantic
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
320.1
Table Of Content
Acknowledgements 1. At the Precipice 2. The Deep State Bogeyman 3. Beyond the Democracy Debate 4. How Vladimir Putin Resurrected Tsarism 5. The Wave: From East to West 6. Reclaiming the Modern State Notes
Synopsis
What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the free market and the flowering of personal liberty. Instead, the death of government agencies organized under the rule of law inevitably leads to the only realistic alternative: the rule of men. In The Assault on the State , political scientists Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein offer an impassioned plea to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. They dissect the attack on the machinery of government from its origins in post-Soviet Russia to the core powers of Western democracy. The dangers of state erosion imperil every aspect of our lives. Hanson and Kopstein outline a strategy that can reverse this destructive trend before humanity is plunged back into the pathological personalistic politics of premodern times. Also available as an audiobook.
LC Classification Number
JN6695.H3 2024
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- n***m (109)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseGood price for the book. Shipping was slow. Messaged the seller a week after I ordered it to see when they were going to ship it. They responded immediately and said it would be shipped out soon. Got it about a week later. Book did arrive in the date range that they provided though  Minimal packaging. Book is Shrink wrapped and only wrapped in thin plastic. No bubble wrap. Book is in good shape though. 
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