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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: three ages of government
    sub title: from the person, to the group, to the world
  name:
    name part: Raadschelders, J. C. N.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 316 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: For much of history, people have been treated as subjects to those with political and economic power and wealth. It is only in the last 250 years that people (in some parts of the world) have become citizens as opposed to subjects. This change happened in a very short period, between 1780 and 1820, when the foundation for democracy was laid. This was also the basis upon which a century later, local governments responded to rapid industrialization, urbanization and population growth. During the twentieth century, all democratic governments came to perform a range of tasks, functions and services that had no historical precedent. In the thirty years following the Second World War, Western democracies created welfare states that, for the first time in history, significantly reduced the gap between the wealthy and the rest. Many of the reforms of that postwar period have been rolled back since then because of the belief that government should be more 'businesslike.' The changes in the role of government in society have been massive in the past 250 years, and so little is known about why. Jos C.N. Raadschelders examines the questions that citizens should have about their connections to government, why there is a government, what it does, how it does it, and why we can no longer do without government. What is Government? rises above stereotypical thinking about government.
  note: Jos C.N. Raadschelders.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Comparative government
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Political science
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Democracy
  subject:
    topic: Citizenship
  classification: JF51 .R33 2020
  classification: 320.3
  identifier: 9780472132232
  identifier: 0472132237
  identifier: 0472038540
  identifier: 9780472038541
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 210129
    record change date: 20211018101355.0
    record identifier: in00004375271