Totalitarianism, Terrorism and Supreme Values History and Theory /

• Main Author: Bernholz, Peter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 33
• Subjects: Political economy.; Terrorism.; Political violence.; Economic theory.; Welfare economics.; Economics.; Religion and sociology.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Political Economy.; Terrorism and Political Violence.; Sociology of Religion.; Economic Systems.

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 le...

Table of Contents:

• 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.