 Was the US Born Modern?Qian Lu ()
Chapter Chapter 1 in From Partisan Banking to Open Access, 2017, pp 1-13 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract The first chapter asks the question “Was the US Born Modern?” “Modern” here refers to the competitive economy and polity characterized by open access, in which the state provides legal organizational forms (such as corporations) impersonally to all parties in society. The implicit assumption behind the idea of the civil society is that USA was an open access society. Section 1 challenges the idea that American civil society was a natural outcome of American revolution and democracy. Section 2 reviews the related literature, presents previous arguments and asks the question why American elites allowed the transition to an open access society, given that they would suffer a loss if privileges were opened to all. Section 3 brings up the conceptual framework, around the characters of modern society: impersonal rules and open access for organizational forms. It proposes a question: was elite competition or elite-citizen completion to be the key force behind the transition to open access. Section 4 previews the results of the following chapters. Keywords: Civil society; Open access; Limited access; Institutional change; Elite (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palscp:978-3-319-67645-6_1 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67645-6_1 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Studies in Economic History from Palgrave Macmillan |
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