Political order and political decay : from the Industrial Revolution to the globalization of democracy /
By: Fukuyama, Francis
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Publisher: London : Profile Books, 2014Description: viii, 658 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781846684364 (hbk.); 9781846684364:; 1846684366 (hbk.).Subject(s): Comparative government -- History | State, The | Democracy -- History | Order -- HistoryDDC classification: 320.9 Summary: 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, finally, how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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, finally, how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged.