On Power by Bertrand de Jouvenel
The Natural History of Its Growth
A historical inquiry into the rise of centralized authority, tracing how sovereign power steadily expands by dismantling intermediary institutions and legitimizing each advance through appeals to security, welfare, and popular will. It contends that even democracies tend toward despotism via taxation, bureaucracy, and war mobilization, gradually subordinating society to administrative control, and warns that only robust intermediary bodies and vigilant citizens can restrain power’s inherent drive to grow.
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- Published
- 1945
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- French
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- French
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- - Du pouvoir
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