EAN: 9780374535629

POLITICAL ORDER AND POLITICAL DECAY - FRANCIS F...

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.

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