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Francis Fukuyama

Political Order and Political Decay


From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy. Nominated for the Political Book Awards International Affairs Book of the Year 2015
2015. 672 p. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: PROFILE BOOKS 2015
ISBN: 1-84668-437-4 (1846684374)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-84668-437-1 (9781846684371)

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The most important book about the history and future of politics since The End of History
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind´s emergence as a political animal.

This is the story of how state, law and democracy developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged.

If we want to understand the political systems that dominate and order our lives, we must first address their origins - in our own recent past as well as in the earliest systems of human government. Fukuyama argues that the key to successful government can be reduced to three key elements: a strong state, the rule of law and institutions of democratic accountability.

This magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind´s greatest achievements.
The best account I have read of how we reached this point ... a wealth of insights worthy of the greatest writers about democracy David Runciman FT
Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future, State Building, After the Neocons, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. All have been hugely influential international bestsellers, translated and published in many languages. He is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford.