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Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering

ISSN: 2165-784X

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Social Contract Innovations

Life has changed substantially for individuals in advanced economies in the first two decades of the 21st century as a result of trends including disruptions in technology, globalization, the economic crisis of 2008 and its recovery, and shifting market and institutional dynamics. The end of a two-century-old cycle is nearing, at the start of which the nation-state was built on the basis of a ‘social contract’, with citizens acknowledging that a central power was needed in order to avoid everyone assuming the role of judge or minister. The transfer of power to the state was shaped through representative democracy, an innovation described at the time as ‘the grand discovery of modern times.’

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