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Author Fukuyama, Francis, author.

Title Political order and political decay : from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy / Francis Fukuyama
Published London : Profile Books, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (658 pages)
Contents Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction: Development of Political Institutions to the French Revolution; Part I: The State; Chapter 1: What Is Political Development?; Chapter 2: The Dimensions of Development; Chapter 3: Bureaucracy; Chapter 4: Prussia Builds a State; Chapter 5: Corruption; Chapter 6: The Birthplace of Democracy; Chapter 7: Italy and the Low-Trust Equilibrium; Chapter 8: Patronage and Reform; Chapter 9: The United States Invents Clientelism; Chapter 10: The End of the Spoils System; Chapter 11: Railroads, Forests, and American State Building; Chapter 12: Nation Building
Chapter 13: Good Government, Bad GovernmentPart II: Foreign Institutions; Chapter 14: Nigeria; Chapter 15: Geography; Chapter 16: Silver, Gold, and Sugar; Chapter 17: Dogs That Didn't Bark; Chapter 18: The Clean Slate; Chapter 19: Storms in Africa; Chapter 20: Indirect Rule; Chapter 21: Institutions, Domestic or Imported; Chapter 22: Lingua Francas; Chapter 23: The Strong Asian State; Chapter 24: The Struggle for Law in China; Chapter 25: The Reinvention of the Chinese State; Chapter 26: Three Regions; Part III: Democracy; Chapter 27: Why Did Democracy Spread?
Chapter 28: The Long Road to DemocracyChapter 29: From 1848 to the Arab Spring; Chapter 30: The Middle Class and Democracy's Future; Part IV: Political Decay; Chapter 31: Political Decay; Chapter 32: A State of Courts and Parties; Chapter 33: Congress and the Repatrimonialization of American Politics; Chapter 34: America the Vetocracy; Chapter 35: Autonomy and Subordination; Chapter 36: Political Order and Political Decay; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index
Summary 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 under
Notes Published in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject State, The -- History
Order -- History
Comparative government -- History
Democracy -- History
Globalization -- History
Law -- History.
globalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Comparative government
Democracy
Globalization
Law
Order
State, The
Demokratie
Politische Ordnung
Politisches System
Staat
Staten -- historia.
Jämförande politik -- historia.
Demokrati -- historia.
Globalisering -- politiska aspekter.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Continuation of: Fukuyama, Francis. Origins of political order
ISBN 1847658725
9781847658722