Institutional resilience: A tale of America and Malaysia

“He is not king, but I will be very surprised if one of his family is not king again, in the fullness of time. What goes around comes around, as the Igors say.

“You have been labouring under a misapprehension, I reckon. You think that because Albrecht dislikes Ankh-Morpork and has ... old-fashioned ideas, he is a bad dwarf. But I have known him for two hundred years. He is honest and honourable ... more so than me, that I’m sure of. But now I am king and he accepts that with all his heart because if he did not, he’d think he wasn’t a dwarf, see? Of course he will now oppose me at every turn. Being Low King was never an easy job.