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2 - The Concepts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2019

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Affiliation:
Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
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In the late eighteenth century, Swiss Cantons had been ruled by privilege, inequality, and conflicts; yet thirty years later a modern political nation was born that quickly caught up with developed England. Was this an internally-driven miracle or the most successful improvement in governance known in history following an external intervention? Chapter 1 deconstructs the transformation of Switzerland during the French Revolution and Empire, to inquire why a similar Napoleonic ambition seems to have met with less success in our own times.

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modernizationbriberyWesternizationcivilizationbackwardnessinterventiondevelopmentbarbariansgood governancecorruption
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Europe's Burden
Promoting Good Governance across Borders
 , pp. 12 - 33
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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