| The iron law of politics. | |
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PMID: 16859384 Owner: KIE Status: PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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Political philosophers have doubted the compatibility of various major values, such as equality and freedom. Ethnographic and historical evidence has indicated the presence of (1) economic equality and individual freedom in the absence of civil peace in segmentary societies based on self-help; (2) economic equality and civil peace in the absence of individual freedom in corporate societies; and (3) individual freedom and civil peace in the absence of economic equality in mercantile and capitalist societies. However, little if any evidence has documented all three -- economic equality, individual freedom, civil peace -- in stable coexistence. By way of delineating the relations between and among the values in question, I offer "The Iron Law of Politics," which asserts that economic equality, individual freedom, and civil peace cannot all exist simultaneously in any society, although any two of the three can. |
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Philip Carl Salzman |
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Type: Journal Article Date: 2005-08-30 |
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Title: Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences Volume: 23 ISSN: 0730-9384 ISO Abbreviation: Politics Life Sci Publication Date: 2004 Sep |
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Created Date: 2006-07-24 Completed Date: 2006-12-18 Revised Date: 2007-08-31 |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8800535 Medline TA: Politics Life Sci Country: United States |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 20-39 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Anthropology, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 2T7. philip.carl.salzman@mcgill.ca. |
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