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Table of Contents:
part I: Before the state. The necessity of politics;
The state of nature;
The tyranny of cousins;
Tribal societies : property, justice, war;
The coming of the leviathan;
part II: State building. Chinese tribalism;
War and the rise of the Chinese state;
The great Han system;
Political decay and the return of patrimonial government;
The Indian detour;
Varnas and jatis;
Weaknesses of Indian politics;
Slavery and the Muslim exit from tribalism;
The Mamluks save Islam;
The functioning and decline of the Ottoman state;
- Christianity undermines the family;
part III: The rule of law. The origins of the rule of law;
The church becomes a state;
The state becomes a church;
Oriental despotism;
Stationary bandits;
part IV: Accountable government. The rise of political accountability;
Rente seekers;
Patrimonialism crosses the Atlantic;
East of the Elbe;
Toward a more perfect absolutism;
Taxation and representation;
Why accountability? Why absolutism;
part V: Toward a theory of political development. Political development and political decay;
Political development, then and now.;
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