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The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution (Hardcover, 2005 ed.): A. Somit, S. Peterson The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution (Hardcover, 2005 ed.)
A. Somit, S. Peterson
R1,453 Discovery Miles 14 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout history, authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is, that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures. Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states, without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure. The authors argue that money and energy devoted to nation-building around the globe, by the US would be better spent on problems facing the country domestically.

Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Hardcover, 2003 ed.): A. Somit, S. Peterson Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)
A. Somit, S. Peterson
R1,479 Discovery Miles 14 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in this collection explore the implications that the growing challenge from "evolutionary" concepts of human nature have in various policyareas and show what must be done to ensure that policies conform to humanbehavior and its limits for change. As our conceptualizations of humanbehavior switch from one that says human behavior is a product of culture(through learning and socialization) to one that claims that behavior isthe outcome of both cultyre and genetics and biology, it is necessary for public policy to change as well. The contributors in this volume examine what happens when it is no longer possible to base policy solely on the basis ofculturally-constructed human behavior. Many argue that to ignore "nature" onbehalf of "nurture" will result in incomplete solutions to social, political, and economic problems.

Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003): A.... Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003)
A. Somit, S. Peterson
R1,451 Discovery Miles 14 510 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arguing for an evolutionary perspective, this book directly challenges the Standard Social Science Model (SSSM) on which public policy has often been based. The SSSM maintains that human behavior is solely the product of culture and learning. In sharp contrast, the Evolutionary Model (EM) holds that our behavior flows from the interaction between learning and culture, on the one hand, and biological factors-especially our evolutionary legacy-on the other. These different approaches to human behavior understandably lead to divergent conceptions of sound domestic and foreign policy. The SSSM views human behavior as essentially plastic and thus readily changed by governmental action. Disagreeing, the Evolutionary Model sees that malleability as seriously limited by our species' evolved propensity for aggression, status seeking, xenophobia, ethnocentrism, and hierarchical social structures.

The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution (Paperback): A. Somit, S. Peterson The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution (Paperback)
A. Somit, S. Peterson
R1,469 Discovery Miles 14 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures. Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure. The authors argue that money and energy devoted to nation-building around the globe by the U.S. would be better spent on problems facing the country domestically.

Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Paperback, 2003 ed.): A. Somit, S. Peterson Human Nature and Public Policy - An Evolutionary Approach (Paperback, 2003 ed.)
A. Somit, S. Peterson
R1,450 Discovery Miles 14 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays in this collection explore the implications that the growing challenge from "evolutionary" concepts of human nature have in various policyareas and show what must be done to ensure that policies conform to humanbehavior and its limits for change. As our conceptualizations of humanbehavior switch from one that says human behavior is a product of culture(through learning and socialization) to one that claims that behavior isthe outcome of both cultyre and genetics and biology, it is necessary for public policy to change as well. The contributors in this volume examine what happens when it is no longer possible to base policy solely on the basis ofculturally-constructed human behavior. Many argue that to ignore "nature" onbehalf of "nurture" will result in incomplete solutions to social, political, and economic problems.

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