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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy
Francis Fukuyama
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Description for Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy
Paperback. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1KBB; JPB; JPFF; JPSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 538.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846684371
SKU
V9781846684371
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About Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is the author of The End of History, The Great Disruption, Our Posthuman Future, State Building, After the Neocons, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. All have been hugely influential international bestsellers, translated and published in many languages. He is Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford. ... Read more
Reviews for Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy
The best account I have read of how we reached this point ... a wealth of insights worthy of the greatest writers about democracy
David Runciman
FT
A basic rule of intellectual life is that celebrity destroys quality ... Francis Fukuyama is a glorious exception to this rule
The Economist
To his credit, Francis Fukuyama ... Read more
David Runciman
FT
A basic rule of intellectual life is that celebrity destroys quality ... Francis Fukuyama is a glorious exception to this rule
The Economist
To his credit, Francis Fukuyama ... Read more