Description: Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism This book explains why citizens sometimes comply with and sometimes disobey the demands of democratic governments. Margaret Levi (Author) 9780521599610, Cambridge University Press Paperback / softback, published 13 October 1997 276 pages 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.41 kg "Levi astutely analyzes resistance to and compliance with calls to military service, a quintessential case in which individuals face the choice of bearing large costs on behalf of benefits they will share little difference. In the process, without ever quite saying so, she batters the postulate of universal self-interest that undergirds so much of rational choice argument in political science." Comparative Politics Democratic governments are able to elicit, legally and legitimately, both money and men from their populations. Certainly there is tax evasion, draft evasion, and even outright resistance; yet to a remarkable extent citizens acquiesce and even actively consent to the demands of governments, well beyond the point explicable by coercion. This is a puzzle for social scientists, particularly those who believe that individuals are self-interested, rational actors who calculate only the private egoistic costs and benefits of possible choices. The provisions of collective good should never justify a quasi-voluntary tax payment and the benefits of a war could not possibly exceed the cost of dying. This book explains the institutionalization of policy in response to anticipated and actual citizen behaviour and the conditions under which citizens give, refuse and withdraw their consent. Professor Levi claims that citizens' consent is contingent upon the perceived fairness of both the government and of other citizens. Most citizens of democracies, most of the time, are more likely to give their consent if they believe that government actors and other citizens are behaving fairly toward them. Series editors' preface Acknowledgements 1. History as politics 2. The contingencies of consent 3. Gone for a soldier 4. The price of citizenship 5. The institution of conscription 6. Giving and refusing consent: citizen response in the Canadian conscription crises 7. A weapon against war: conscientious objection in the United States, Australia and France 8. The democratization of compliance Bibliography Index. Subject Areas: Political structure & processes [JPH]
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BIC Subject Area 1: Political structure & processes [JPH]
Book Title: Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism
ISBN: 052159961X
Publication Date: 13/10/1997
Item Depth: 16
Number of Pages: 276 Pages
Publication Name: Consent, Dissent, and Patriotism
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Publication Year: 1997
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 410 g
Subject Area: Political Science
Author: Margaret Levi
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
Format: Paperback
