Take Me to Your Government: Four Fables. This item is unavailable.Take Me to Your Government: Four Fables

Four witty fables recounting the travels of 17-year- old Princess Navina to bizarre countries that uncomfortably resemble our own. A satire in the mode of Gulliver s Travels, these clever tales provoke searching questions about modern government.

The visit to Malvolia raises the question of whether the welfare state is a helpful or harmful institution.

In Mandaat, readers explore the result of unlimited government bent on fixing everything.

The country of Nueva Malvolia asks whether sane policy can come from a system oriented toward pleasing a gullible, superficial public.

The visit to Voluntaria focuses on the elephant in the living room that the left is too embarrassed to face: government s use of force. The tale provokes readers to ask whether modern government, a centralized agency based on force, should be considered the ideal system of governance.

James L. Payne (Count Nef) has taught political science at Yale, Wesleyan, Johns Hopkins, and Texas A&M, and is the author of books on Latin America, foreign policy, social science methodology, political motivation, Congress, taxation, welfare, and the history of force. His latest book is Six Political Illusions (2010). He makes his home in Sandpoint, Idaho.