Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Fukuyama, Francis
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Fukuyama, Francis

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in...
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Fukuyama, Francis

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

$82.27
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Fukuyama, Francis

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy

$82.27
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state

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.

Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 09/30/2014
Pages: 672
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.08lbs
Size: 9.29h x 6.44w x 1.96d
ISBN: 9780374227357


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Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 04/15/2014 pg. 58
Publishers Weekly 08/18/2014
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2014
New York Times Book Review 09/14/2014 pg. 1
New York Times Book Review 09/21/2014 pg. 22
Library Journal 10/01/2014 pg. 100
Booklist 10/01/2014 pg. 12
Kirkus Best Nonfiction 12/01/2014 pg. 18

About the Author

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department's policy planning staff. He is the author of The Origins of Political Order, The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.


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