Corruption and Growth

The course is focused on historical texts, most of them philosophical. Context for understanding the texts and the course of democratic development will be provided in lecture and discussions, and by some background readings (Dunn). We begin with the remarkable Athenian democracy, and its frequent enemy the Spartan oligarchy. In Athens legislation was passed directly by an assembly of all citizens, and executive officials were selected by lot rather than by competitive election. Athenian oligarchs such as Plato more admired Sparta, and their disdain for the democracy became the judgment of the ages, until well after the modern democratic revolutions. Marsilius of Padua in the early Middle Ages argued for popular sovereignty. The Italian citystates of the Middle Ages did without kings, and looked back to Rome and Greece for republican models. During the English Civil War republicans debated whether the few or the many should be full citizens of the regime. The English, French, and American revolutions struggled with justifying and establishing a representative democracy suitable for a large state, and relied on election rather than lot to select officials. The English established a constitutional monarchy, admired in Europe, and adapted by the Americans in their republican constitution. The American Revolution helped inspire the French, and the French inspired republican and democratic revolution throughout Europe during the 19 century.

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Democracy and Its Critics

It’s been a long time since academic discussions about research and teaching were part of the board meetings of the department of Anthropology and Sociology of the University of Amsterdam. Most of our meetings today deal with administrative problems [...]

Seeing like a State.

The authors present the Annual Oral Cancer Campaign of Araraquara promoted by the Oral Medicine Service of the Araraquara Dental School – UNESP. This campaign is an extension activity which, since its beginning, in 1993, has been expanding.The campaign provides background for teaching and research as well as benefits to the regional community. In 1999 this activity was conducted, for the first time, in a public fair visited daily for thousands people. This opportunity, which started in 1999, promoted the expansion of benefits and contributed to legitimate the campaign as an authentic extramural extension activity.

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Campanha de prevenção do câncer bucal em Araraquara: uma iniciativa de extensão consolidada em 11 anos de experiência

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Strong Societies And Weak States State Society Relations And State Capabilities In The Third World

The private economy sector in Vietnam is a quite recent phenomenon that emerged in the process of the Vietnamese
reform and renovation process (doi moi). In Western languages we find rather few publications addressing that sector.
For many Western scholars Vietnamese material is rarely available. Therefore, more information might be of interest for
scholars interested in Southeast Asian developments. 
This Working Paper contains three contributions on private sector development in Vietnam. The first paper was written
by Prof. Tuong Lai, former Director of the Institute of Sociology, National Center for Humanities and Social Sciences in
Hanoi who is currently a member of the Research Institute under the Vietnamese Prime Minister. 
Author of the second paper is Nguyen Duc Vinh, a research fellow of the Institute of Sociology in Hanoi. The papers
from Tuong Lai and Nguyen Duc Vinh were presented to a workshop on "Private Entrepreneurship in China and
Vietnam" at Gerhard-Mercator University Duisburg in May 1999. 
The third paper, written by Thomas Heberer and Arno Kohl, addresses preliminary findings of a research project on the
private economy in Vietnam, conducted in 1996 (a five months field study) and was funded by the German Research
Council (DFG). 
The authors of the papers are solely responsible for the contents of their papers and the English version.

https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/40989/1/309398827.pdf

Aspects of Private Sector Development in Vietnam

Unternehmer als strategische Gruppen : zur sozialen und politischen Funktion von Unternehmern in China und Vietnam

Continuity and Change in China's “Local State Developmentalism”

In 2014 China’s development was characterized by a search for structural reforms in both domestic and foreign policies. Domestically, focal issues included the fight against corruption, the implementation of reforms of China’s development model, and a tightening of internal (anti-terror) measures. In foreign policy, traditional paradigms are now under scrutiny, and the regional rivalry with the U.S. has intensified.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/info/10.1525/as.2015.55.1.82

Thomas Heberer

Papers

Aspects of Private Sector Development in Vietnam

Unternehmer als strategische Gruppen : zur sozialen und politischen Funktion von Unternehmern in China und Vietnam

Continuity and Change in China's “Local State Developmentalism”

China in 2014: Creating a New Power and Security Architecture in Domestic and Foreign Policies

China: Creating civil-society structures top-down?