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7. G. Bruce Knecht, “Thais that Bind,” National Review, November 21, 1994, p. 58.
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8. Michael Vatikiotis, “Sino Chic,” Far Eastern Economic Review, January 11, 1996, pp. 22–23.
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Chapter 9
1. See “The Forbes Four Hundred,” September 27, 2001, available at http://www.forbes.com/2001/09/27/400.html.
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2. Thomas Babington Macaulay, “The People’s Charter” (May 3, 1842) in Miscellanies (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Company, 1900), volume 1, pp. 263–76. The quotes from Adam Smith, James Madison, and David Ricardo are from: Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776) (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976), book V, chapter I, part II, p. 232; James Madison, “Note to His Speech on the Right of Suffrage” (1821), in Max Farrand, ed., The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1966), volume 3, pp. 450, 452; and Piero Sraffa, ed., The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo, volume VII (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1952), pp. 369–70.
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3. Claus Offe, Modernity and the State: East, West (Cambridge, England: Polity Press, 1996), p. 154. See also Adam Przeworski, “The Neoliberal Fallacy,” in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds., Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993), p. 47.
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4. Forest McDonald, Novos Ordo Seclorum (Wichita: University Press of Kansas, 1985), p. 26; Chilton Williamson, American Suffrage: From Property to Democracy, 1760–1860 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1960), p. 280; and Robert J. Steinfeld, “Property and Suffrage in the Early American Republic,” Stanford Law Review 41 (1989): 335–76, especially p. 353. This chapter is based on an earlier article of mine. See Amy L. Chua, “The Paradox of Free Market Democracy: Rethinking Development Policy,” Harvard International Law Journal 41 (2000): 287–379, especially pp. 293–308.
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5. Regarding suffrage limits in England, see McDonald, Novos Ordo Seclorum, pp. 25–26. On France, see Henry W. Ehrmann and Martin A. Schain, Politics in France (5th ed.) (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), pp. 199–200. On Belgium, see Pierre van den Berghe, The Ethnic Phenomenon (New York: Elsevier, 1981), p. 202.
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6. Others have recently made this point. See, for example, Robert A. Dahl, On Democracy (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998), pp. 175–76, and John Gray, False Dawn (New York: New Press, 1998), pp. 17–18.
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7. Nancy Birdsall, “Population Growth,” Finance and Development, September 1984, pp. 10–14.
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8. Reuven Brenner, “Land of Opportunity,” Forbes, October 12, 1998, p. 66.
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9. Mark Barenberg, “Federalism and American Labor Law,” in Ingolf Pernice, ed., Harmonization of Legislation in Federal Systems (Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 1996), pp. 93, 110.
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10. Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward, The Breaking of the American Social Compact (New York: New Press, 1997), pp. 12, 92.
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11. C. V. Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow (New York: Oxford University Press, 1966), p. 23, and James Oakes, The Ruling Race (London and New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998), p. 234 (quoting a Georgia commissioner speaking before the Virginia secession convention).
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12. Oakes, The Ruling Race, p. 238 (quoting James S. Clark).
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13. Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, pp. 83–88. There is a large literature on the Jim Crow era in the United States. In addition to Woodward, works particularly relevant here include the classic W. J. Cash, The Mind of the South (New York: Doubleday, 1956), and John W. Cell, The Highest Stage of White Supremacy: The Origins of Segregation in South Africa and the American South (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982).
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14. Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, pp.