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Title: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington, Jr. Moore ISBN: 0-8070-5073-3 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.83 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An interesting book, but....
Comment: There are a couple of quick points I'd like to add. First, these ambitious books often cover so much (and I think well in this case) that historical errors are bound to crop up. For example, Japanese historians have pointed out errors in the Japan chapter that should be considered.
Second, the end of Adam's otherwise very informative review is simply incorrect. China with a GDP/capita of around $4500 has NOT outstripped Russia at $9000 GDP/capita. This , of course, does not reflect at all on the book, but too often those who eschew statistical based political science run the risk of being way off in evaluating success/failure or change. Certainly not everyone, but I have seen this strong tendancy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remarkable Comparative History
Comment: In "Social Origins", Barrington Moore conducts a study of economic, social and political change in the modern era. Moore survey's modern societies from England to Japan comparing social and economic structures with emphasis on class stratification.
Moore uses a hybrid Marxist analysis and turns it on its head by finding common conditions favorable to democracies and conditions that lead to fascist and commmunist dictatorships. Moore finds some common factors to successful transition to include a need for social change to accompany technological change, the strength of a "middle class" and the need to address the concerns of agrarian society.
In the end Moore believes that the industrial change took place at great cost in every society. The key to successful transistion to democracy was in how this "industrial revolution" was implemented.
Whether one agrees totally or not, "Social Origins" never ceases to be stimulating in its analysis.
Rating: 5
Summary: Well thought out
Comment: for someone who loves political theory, this is an excellent book to read that delves deeply into what causes revolutions and what creates a dictatorship and what creates a democracy. the only problem with this book is that it can't seem to take an account of why India is still a democracy. the peasants won in india, but they are still a democracy.
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Title: States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of France, Russia, and China by Theda Skocpol ISBN: 0521294991 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1979 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel P. Huntington ISBN: 0300011717 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time by Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz, Fred Block ISBN: 080705643X Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure by Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman ISBN: 0521586682 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 1997 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America by Adam Przeworski ISBN: 052142335X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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