Bernholz Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values

History and Theory
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-56907-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 33, 160 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Studies in Public Choice

Applying a rational choice perspective, this book presents a dynamic theory of the evolution of totalitarian regimes and terrorism. By demonstrating that totalitarian regimes rest on ideologies involving supreme values that are assumed to be absolutely true, the author identifies the factors that lead to totalitarian regimes, and those that transform or abolish those regimes with time. The author addresses different ideologies, such as National Socialism, Communism, and religious movements; examines numerous historical cases of totalitarian regimes; and develops a formal, mathematical model of totalitarianism in the book’s closing chapter.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bernholz, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Ideologies of National Socialism, Communism, Christianity and Islam.- The Theory of Totalitarianism and Mature Ideocracy, Part I: Evolution and Development.- Further Historical Cases of Totalitarian Regimes.- Mature Ideocracies.- The Theory of Totalitarian Regimes, Part II: Stability, Further Development and Demise.- The Constitution of Totalitarianism.- Terrorism as a Means to Win or to Regain Secular Power.- Economic and Political Problems Facing Ideocracies.- Art and Science in Totalitarian Regimes and Mature Ideocracies.- A Formal Model of Totalitarianism.- Summary: Supreme Values, Totalitarian Regimes and Mature Ideocracies.

Über Autor(innen)

Assistant Professor at Universität Frankfurt 1964-66, Ordinarius (Full Professor) at Technische Universität Berlin 1966 to 1971. Since 1971 Ordinarius for Economics, especially for Economic Policy and for Monetary and International Economics, and Institute Director at Universität Basel, Switzerland. Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and History 1982-83. Guest professor at
MIT
1969,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
1974 and 1978,
Stanford University
1981,
University of California LA
1986/87,
Australian National University,
Canberra, 1993,
University of California Irvine 1998, Universita degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
2000
,
 Research Fellow of the
Center for Study of Public Choice, George Mason University,
Fairfax, Virginia. 

Corresponding Member of the
Bavarian Academy of Sciences
. Dr. rer. pol. h. c. of
Universitaet Konstanz
2000,
Universitaet Freiburg
2011, Germany. Fellow of
Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin (Center for Advanced Studies)
2000-2001. President of
European Public Choice Society
from 1974 to 1981; Member Academic Advisory Board

of the German Minister of Economics since 1974; Member of the
Macroeconomic Policy Group
of the European Union from 1988 to 1990; Co-Founder of the
European Constitutional
Group 1992.