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The assault on the state : how the global attack on modern government endangers our future / Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein.

Author/creator Hanson, Stephen E., 1963- author.
Other author/creatorKopstein, Jeffrey, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtGW4P4q6xbwVcQqjgdwC
Format Book and Print
Publication Info Cambridge ; Hoboken : Polity Press, 2024.
Copyright Notice ©2024
Descriptionvii, 186 pages ; 23 cm
Subject(s)
Contents At the precipice -- The deep state bogeyman -- Beyond the democracy debate -- How Vladimir Putin resurrected tsarism -- The wave : from east to west -- Reclaiming the modern state.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1509563156 (hardcover)
ISBN9781509563159 (hardcover)

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