economic rights, legal rights, and the scope of the state /
Yoram Barzel.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
xiii, 289 pages ;
24 cm
Political economy of institutions and decisions
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.
"This book models the emergence of the state and the forces that shape it. State creation is bound to protection needs. A specialized protector-ruler is efficient, but is also self-seeking. Individuals are expected to install rulers only after they have created mechanisms to control them. Among the offshoots of the organized protection are a legal system and decision-making procedures that include voting. The initial "state of nature," then, may gradually evolve into a rule-of-law state."--Jacket.