A groundbreaking, radical look at the world’s most violent, corrupt societies, how they got that way, and what can be done to break the cycle
“His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion.”
—New York Times Book Review
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“In Wars, Guns, and Votes, Paul Collier has set out to bring empirical rigor to our intuitions. . . . Collier has made a substantial contribution to current discussions. His evidence-based approach is a worthwhile corrective to the assumptions about democracy that too often tend to dominate when Western policy makers talk about the bottom billion.”
- Kenneth Roth, New York Times Book Review
"Timely. . . . Collier challenges a lot of lazy Western thinking about the trajectory that poor countries should take to improve their lot. . . . Mr Collier is thinking about these urgent and very difficult issues, something not many people are willing to tackle head-on. He has kicked off a debate that should be raging inside the development agencies and chancelleries of every Western capital, and in Africa and Asia too. The effort is surely worth it."
- The Economist
“Innovative. . . . Clear-eyed analysis. . . . There is cause for hope, or pessimism, depending on how you look at it, in one of the most interesting parts of Wars, Guns, and Votes. Collier describes the historical processes that brought legitimate government to Europe, under conditions at least as abject as those facing the Bottom Billion today.”
- Christian Science Monitor