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4 Reddit comments about Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States:

u/propsie · 10 pointsr/newzealand

If you can't be bothered to type the vowels in "people", why should we be bothered to do your research for you.

Read Fairness and Freedom

u/sobri909 · 4 pointsr/AskSocialScience

>Higher minimal wages and the existance of paid parental leave suggests that stuff like Marxism or the chartist movement has been more successful in New Zealand as well.

It was. Or is. New Zealand prioritises justice and fairness while the US prioritises liberty, to grossly over simplify. Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States is a historical analysis of exactly that ideological difference.

>What makes Indonesia and Vietnam and the USA so different from France and NZ?

This will be drifting outside of my areas of study, but one factor would be the differences in political structures that SEA nations were transitioning from. The US had a fairly strong, assured, and internally respected constitutional structure, that would have been resilient to revolution. But various SEA nations were experiencing recent transitions from monarchies of varying degrees of strength and support, or transitioning away from recently departed colonial powers, and were experimenting with various constitutional structures imported from elsewhere. So potential communist revolutions had much weaker states to overthrow, and much more open and receptive ideological ground to plant their ideas in.

Aside: Thailand has some fascinating history on that front, although I can't legally discuss it right now due to being in Thailand and it being illegal to discuss. If you look for books on Thailand's constitutional history and interactions with the rise of communism, you'll find some interesting things.

You can see that difference persisting today, where democracy in SEA states is fragile, and constantly suffering from credibility and legitimacy weaknesses. Authoritarian Rule of Law is a legalistic analysis of how the post colonial Singapore government overcame that weakness of legitimacy by continuing the colonial power's subjugation of the people, and effectively establishing their legitimacy by becoming a quasi self colonial government.

u/Krillo90 · 3 pointsr/newzealand

You might be interested in checking out Fairness and Freedom.

u/Thesundancer · 1 pointr/newzealand

Just my 2 cents here, but if you want to understand our history a little more, I recommend Fairness and Freedom. It compares NZ and the US so will help you to understand our culture and indigenous rights history against the background of your own history, which in turn might help you to understand the comparison a little more.

http://www.amazon.com/Fairness-Freedom-History-Societies-Zealand/dp/0199832706