• 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… CONTINUE READING

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