Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
- 1 A Natural Experiment
- 2 A Theory of International Order
- 3 Three International Trajectories
- 4 Liberalism and Its Rivals: History, Typology, and Measurement
- PART TWO CONTINGENT SELECTION AND SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS: COUNTRY-LEVEL ANALYSES OF ELITE SELECTION, IDEATIONAL CHANGE, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHOICE, 1991–2000
- PART THREE COMPARING CASES
- Appendix A Measurement and Coding of Economic Ideas – Additional Tests
- Appendix B Interviews Conducted by the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - Liberalism and Its Rivals: History, Typology, and Measurement
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- PART ONE THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
- 1 A Natural Experiment
- 2 A Theory of International Order
- 3 Three International Trajectories
- 4 Liberalism and Its Rivals: History, Typology, and Measurement
- PART TWO CONTINGENT SELECTION AND SYSTEMATIC EFFECTS: COUNTRY-LEVEL ANALYSES OF ELITE SELECTION, IDEATIONAL CHANGE, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHOICE, 1991–2000
- PART THREE COMPARING CASES
- Appendix A Measurement and Coding of Economic Ideas – Additional Tests
- Appendix B Interviews Conducted by the Author
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
We have here a tolerably decided contrast between bodies-politic and individual bodies; and it is one which we should keep constantly in view. For it reminds us that while, in individual bodies, the welfare of all other parts is rightly subservient to the welfare of the nervous system… in bodies-politic the same thing does not hold, or holds to but a very slight extent. It is well that the lives of all parts of an animal should be merged in the life of the whole, because the whole has a corporate consciousness capable of happiness or misery. But it is not so with a society; since its living units do not and cannot lose individual consciousness, and since the community as a whole has not corporate consciousness. This is an everlasting reason why the welfare of citizens cannot rightly be sacrificed to some supposed benefit of the State, and why, on the other hand, the State is to be maintained solely for the benefit of the citizens. The corporate life must here be subservient to the lives of the parts, instead of the lives of the parts being subservient to the corporate life.
Now that we have a good sense of the international institutional choices made by the states in the region over the first decade of their independence, let us turn to the ideas. To do so, we take a historical turn, since each of the ideas found in the region has a long pedigree.
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- Economic Liberalism and Its RivalsThe Formation of International Institutions among the Post-Soviet States, pp. 84 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009