• DOI:10.1353/jod.0.0060
Corpus ID: 153774943

Violence and the Rise of Open-Access Orders

@article{North2008ViolenceAT,
  title={Violence and the Rise of Open-Access Orders},
  author={D. North and Douglass C. John Joseph Barry R. Wallis and Douglass C. John Joseph Barry R. Weingast},
  journal={Journal of Democracy},
  year={2008},
  volume={20},
  pages={55 - 68}
}

• D. North, Douglass C. John Joseph Barry R. Wallis, Douglass C. John Joseph Barry R. Weingast
• Published 2008
• Economics
• Journal of Democracy

The problem of controlling the use of force and those who are best at wielding it is foundational to human collective life. For most of history, a social order that was relatively “closed” has seemed the most natural way to manage this problem. But over the past century or two, a transition from closed- to open-access orders has led to the emergence of societies with widespread political participation, the use of elections to select governments, constitutional arrangements to limit and define… Expand