Description
Book SynopsisThis text is based on the premise that a national state is a particular type of organization and its performance can be evaluated with reasonable objectivity. The contributors consider the performance of seven nations in the pursuit of union, justice, tranquillity, defence, welfare and liberty.
Trade Review"A penetrating, provocative analysis of transformations grounded in seven very informed and highly contextualized descriptions of the transformations in question ... Caplow lays out some rather remarkable insights about what has changed in the second half of the twentieth century and the essay by Langlois is excellent." Gary Caldwell, Independent Scholar "A very interesting contribution to the field of social reporting ... it is a fresh and uncomplicated step toward portraying whole societies and comparing them by the use of basic constitutional values." Wolfgang Glatzer, Department of Social Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
