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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Russell Hardin |
| ISBN: | 0691043507 9780691043500 0691048258 9780691048253 |
| OCLC Number: | 31377906 |
| Description: | xiv, 288 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Ch. 1. Individuals and Groups -- Ch. 2. Group Power -- Ch. 3. Group Identification -- Ch. 4. Norms of Exclusion -- Ch. 5. Universalistic Norms -- Ch. 6. Violent Conflicts -- Ch. 7. Einstein's Dictum and Communitarianism -- Ch. 8. Whither Difference? |
| Responsibility: | Russell Hardin. |
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Abstract:
He also reveals the thinking behind the preemptive strikes that contribute to much of the violence between groups, identifies the dangers of "particularist" communitarianism, and argues for government structures to prevent any ethnic or other group from having too much sway. Exploring conflict between groups such as Serbs and Croats, Hutu and Tutsi, and Northern Irish Catholics and Protestants, Hardin vividly illustrates the danger that arises when individual and group interests merge.
In these examples, groups of people have been governed by movements that managed to reflect their members' personal interests - mainly by striving for political and economic advances at the expense of other groups and by closing themselves off from society at large. The author concludes that we make a better and safer world if we design our social institutions to facilitate individual efforts to achieve personal goals than if we concentrate on the ethnic political makeup of our respective societies.
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