![]() ![]() ![]() This magisterial account is required reading for anyone wishing to know more about mankind's greatest achievements. 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. After tracing how a modern and effective government was developed in the U.S., Fukuyama asserts that it is experiencing political decay. 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. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. Fukuyama argues that while democracies can theoretically reform through electoral politics, they are also potentially subject to decay when institutions do not adapt. 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. Here, he picks up the thread again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankind's emergence as a political animal. In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of mankind to the French and American Revolutions. ![]()
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