03077cam a2200493 i 4500 23396523 BJBSDDR 20250722095146.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 231127s2024 enk rb 001 0 eng d 2023951143 1509563156 (hardcover) 9781509563159 (hardcover) (OCoLC)on1414370407 YDX eng rda YDX YDX OCLCO DLC eng lccopycat JC 11 H251a 2024 320.1 Hanson, Stephen E., 1963- 42929 The assault on the state : how the global attack on modern government endangers our future / Stephen E. Hanson, Jeffrey S. Kopstein. Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, NJ : Polity, 2024. vii, 186 pages ; 23 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. At the precipice -- The deep state bogeyman -- Beyond the democracy debate -- How Vladimir Putin resurrected tsarism -- The wave : from east to west -- Reclaiming the modern state. What if the state as we know it didn't exist? Our air would be poisonous, our votes uncounted, and our markets dysfunctional. Yet across the world, in countries as diverse as Hungary, Israel, the U.K., and the U.S., attacks on the modern state and its workforce are intensifying. They are morphing into power grabs by self-aggrandizing politicians who attempt to seize control of the state for themselves and their cronies. What replaces the modern state once it is fatally undermined is not the free market and the flowering of personal liberty. Instead, the death of government agencies organized under the rule of law inevitably leads to the only realistic alternative: the rule of men. In The Assault on the State, political scientists Stephen Hanson and Jeffrey Kopstein offer an impassioned plea to defend modern government against those who seek to destroy it. They dissect the attack on the machinery of government from its origins in post-Soviet Russia to the core powers of Western democracy. The dangers of state erosion imperil every aspect of our lives. Hanson and Kopstein outline a strategy that can reverse this destructive trend before humanity is plunged back into the pathological personalistic politics of premodern times. State, The. Estado, El 2763 Government, Resistance to. Resistencia civil 1355 Resistencia pasiva contra el gobierno 10384 World politics 21st century. Política mundial Siglo XXI 538 Kopstein, Jeffrey Stephen, 1962- 10463 7 cbc copycat 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK LLH 123984 123984 0 0 lcc 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2025-06-27 0 JC 11 H251a 2024 00000191296 2025-06-27 00:00:00 1 2025-06-27 BK