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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy Author: Francis Fukuyama Series: Ideal Country Translation Series
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy Author: Francis Fukuyama Series: Ideal Country Translation Series
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Political Order and Political Decay" is the latest book by Stanford University political scientist Francis Fukuyama. It is a sister volume to his previous volume, "The Origins of Political Order". In the previous volume, the author traced the origins of human political order back to pre-human times, outlining how the three major components of the political system - the state, the rule of law, and (democratic) accountability - developed from history, and the narrative history ended with the French Revolution; this volume continues to tell the story left over from the first volume, exploring the development and interaction of these three major components in the modern world after the Industrial Revolution.
In this second volume, Fukuyama continues to focus on how societies develop strong, impersonal, and responsible political institutions, examining examples from the French Revolution to the Arab Spring and the deep dysfunction of contemporary American politics, depicting how the three major institutions of the state, the rule of law, and democratic accountability have different results around the world due to different development sequences. He discusses the governance of political corruption, examines the different political legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and boldly estimates how future democracy will respond to the rise of the global middle class and the deep-rooted political paralysis in the Western world.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Francis Fukuyama: Japanese-American scholar, PhD in Political Science from Harvard University, currently the Oliver Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. Previously, he taught at the Niedz School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Bureau of the U.S. State Department and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. He has written The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, America at the Crossroads, and The Origins of Political Order. He currently lives in California.
