A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.
About the Author
S. Gordon Redding, Poon Kam Kai Professor of Management Studies at the University of Hong Kong, is the author of The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism (1990).
World events-recent, current, and almost certainly to come-drive home the truth that before there can be a democratic state, there must first be a functioning state, period. Creating workable states…
In severely divided societies, ethnic cleavages tend to produce ethnic parties and ethnic voting. Power-sharing institutions can ameliorate this problem, but attempts to establish such institutions, whether based on a consociational or…
We welcome the common ground. The challenge ahead is to protect democracies genuinely in peril, while not losing valuable time and resources chasing authoritarian ghosts.
