2014 PoliticalOrderandPoliticalDecay
- (Fukuyama, 2014a) ⇒ Francis Fukuyama. (2014). “Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy.” Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN:9781429944328
Subject Headings: French Revolution; Napoleonic Code; Civil Service
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Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time.” And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed “this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two.”
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
INTRODUCTION - Development of Political Institutions to the French Revolution
Social Animals
Emergence of the State
The Rule of Law
Democratic Accountability
The French Revolution
Part I. THE STATE
What Is Political Development?
The Dimensions of Development
Bureaucracy
Prussia Builds a State
Corruption
The Birthplace of Democracy
Institutions Domestic or Imported
Lingua Francas
The Strong Asian State
The Struggle for Law in China
The Reinvention of the Chinese State
DEMOCRACY
Why Did Democracy Spread?
The Long Road to Democracy
Italy and the LowTrust Equilibrium
Patronage and Reform
The United States Invents Clientelism
The End of the Spoils System
Railroads Forests and American State Building
Nation Building
Good Government Bad Government
FOREIGN INSTITUTIONS
Nigeria
Geography
Silver Gold and Sugar
Dogs That Didnt Bark
The Clean Slate
Storms in Africa
Indirect Rule
From 1848 to the Arab Spring
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30 The Middle Class and Democracys Future
POLITICAL DECAY
Political Decay
A State of Courts and Parties
Congress and the Repatrimonialization of American Politics
America the Vetocracy
Autonomy and Subordination
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| Author | volume | Date Value | title | type | journal | titleUrl | doi | note | year | |
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| 2014 PoliticalOrderandPoliticalDecay | Francis Fukuyama | Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy | 2014 |