Violence and Social Orders : A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Cambridge University Press June 2009 Douglass C. North, J. Wallis and B. Weingast
Preface page xi
Acknowledgments xv
1. The Conceptual Framework
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Concept of Social Orders: Violence, Institutions, and Organizations
1.3 The Logic of the Natural State
1.4 The Logic of the Open Access Order
1.5 The Logic of the Transition from Natural States to Open Access Orders
1.6 A Note on Beliefs
1.7 The Plan
2. The Natural State
2.2 Commonalities: Characteristics of Limited Access Orders
2.3 Differences: A Typology of Natural States
2.4 Privileges, Rights, and Elite Dynamics
2.5 Origins: The Problem Scale and Violence
2.6 Natural State Dynamics: Fragile to Basic Natural States
2.7 Moving to Mature Natural States: Disorder, Organization, and the Medieval Church
2.8 Mature Natural States: France and England in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries
2.9 Natural States
Appendix: Skeletal Evidence and Empirical Results
3. The Natural State Applied: English Land Law
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Chronology
3.3 The Courts, Legal Concepts, and the Law of Property
3.4 Bastard Feudalism
3.5 Bastard Feudalism and the Impersonalization of Property
3.6 The Typology of Natural States
4. Open Access Orders
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Commonalities: Characteristics of an Open Access Order
4.3 Institutions, Beliefs, and Incentives Supporting Open Access
4.4 Incorporation: The Extension of Citizenship
4.5 Control of Violence in Open Access Orders
4.6 Growth of Government
4.7 Forces of Short-Run Stability
4.8 Forces of Long-Run Stability: Adaptive Efficiency
4.9 Why InstitutionsWork Differently under Open Access than Limited Access
4.10 A New “Logic of Collective Action” and Theory of Rent-Seeking
4.11 Democracy and Redistribution
4.12 Adaptive Efficiency and the Seeming Independence of Economics and Politics in Open Access Orders
5. The Transition from Limited to Open Access Orders: The Doorstep Conditions
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Personality and Impersonality: The Doorstep Conditions
5.3 Doorstep Condition #1: Rule of Law for Elites
5.4 Doorstep Condition #2: Perpetually Lived Organizations in the Public and Private Spheres
5.5 Doorstep Condition #3: Consolidated Control of the Military
5.6 The British Navy and the British State
5.7 Time, Order, and Institutional Forms
6. The Transition Proper
6.1 Institutionalizing Open Access
6.2 Fear of Faction
6.3 Events
6.4 Parties and Corporations
6.5 The Transition to Open Access in Britain
6.6 The Transition to Open Access in France
6.7 The Transition to Open Access in the United States
6.8 Institutionalizing Open Access:Why theWest?
7. A New Research Agenda for the Social Sciences
7.1 The Framing Problems
7.2 The Conceptual Framework
7.3 A New Approach to the Social Sciences: Violence, Institutions, Organizations, and Beliefs
7.4 A New Approach to the Social Sciences: Development and Democracy
7.5 Toward a Theory of the State
7.6 Violence and Social Orders: TheWay Ahead
References
Index
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