State Formation, Regime Change, and Economic Development - 9781138682801

Taylor & Francis

State Formation, Regime Change, and Economic DevelopmentAuthor(s): Jrgen Mller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138682801, 978-1138682801\nSynopsis\nFailed or weak states, miscarried democratizations, and economic underdevelopment characterize a large part of the world we live in. Much work has been done on these subjects over the latest decades but most of this research ignores the deep historical processes that produced the modern state, modern democracy and the modern market economy in the first place.\n\nThis book elucidates the roots of these developments. The book discusses why China was surpassed by Europeans in spite of its early development of advanced economic markets and a meritocratic state. It also hones in on the relationship between geopolitical pressure and state formation and on the European conditions that from the Middle Ages onwards facilitated the development of the modern state, modern dem.