Name: The Fourth Revolution: The Global Race to Reinvent the State, Paperback/John Micklethwait
Brand: Penguin Books
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From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation , a visionaryargument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than thefourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state Dysfunctional government: It s become a cliche, and most of us are resigned to the fact that nothingis ever going to change. As John Micklethwait andAdrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriouslylimited view of things. In fact, there have beenthree great revolutions in government in thehistory of the modern world. The West has led theserevolutions, but now we are in the midst of a fourthrevolution, and it is Western government that is indanger of being left behind. Now, things really are different. The West s debtload is unsustainable. The developing world hasharvested the low-hanging fruits. Industrializationhas transformed all the peasant economies it hadleft to transform, and the toxic side effects of rapiddeveloping world growth are adding to the bill.From Washington to Detroit, from Brasilia to NewDelhi, there is a dual crisis of political legitimacy andpolitical effectiveness. The Fourth Revolution crystallizes the scope of thecrisis and points forward to our future. The authorsenjoy extraordinary access to influential figures andforces the world over, and the book is a global tourof the innovators in how power is to be wielded.The age of big government is over; the age of smartgovernment has begun. Many of the ideas theauthors discuss seem outlandish now, but the centerof gravit