Beschreibung:
Sven Steinmo holds the Chair in Public Policy and Political Economy at the European University Institute in Florence and is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Southern Denmark and the NordWel Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute for Future Studies in Stockholm, Sweden.
The Evolution of Modern States, first published in 2010, examines the politics, history, and public policy of Sweden, Japan, and the United States.
1. Introduction: evolutionary narratives; 2. Sweden: the evolution of a bumble-bee; 3. The Japanese hybrid; 4. The United States: strong nation - weak state; 5. And yet it moves.