In his latest book, Harvard professor Steven Pinker, and many other thinkers before him, concludes that one of the main drivers behind less violent societies is the spread of the constitutional state and the introduction, on a large scale, of the state monopoly on the legitimized use of violence, legitimized by a democratically elected government, legitimized by checks and balances
En su último libro, Steven Pinker, profesor de Harvard, concluye que uno de los motores principales de las sociedades menos violentas es la propagación del estado de derecho y la introducción a gran escala del monopolio estatal en el uso legítimo de la violencia, legitimado por un gobierno electo democráticamente, legitimado por pesos