Institutions
Alan Ryan, 26 November 1987
Ruling Performance: British Governments from Attlee to Thatcher
edited by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon.
Blackwell, 344 pp., £25, October 1987,0 631 15645 3 Show More
edited by Peter Hennessy and Anthony Seldon.
Blackwell, 344 pp., £25, October 1987,
The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Institutions
edited by Vernon Bogdanor.
Blackwell, 667 pp., £45, September 1987,0 631 13841 2 Show More
edited by Vernon Bogdanor.
Blackwell, 667 pp., £45, September 1987,
“... so often succeed in maintaining good order and allowing their citizens to look after themselves in peace. Idealists have retorted that human nature is what it is only because our institutions are corrupt; the state can play much more than a defensive role. In particular, a well-designed state can create a more amenable human nature, can organise prosperity ... ”