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

from Pferdina

I suppose I learned something, but the book was very heavy and with the audio version I couldn't see the figures the author kept talking about. I had not known anything about the history of governments in Central/South America, Africa, or most of Asia, and there was a bit of that.

from LynnB

Despite several comparisons with/examples from other countries, this book is really about the U.S., which the author says has been suffering with decaying institutions since the 1970s. The author believes that, for stability, a strong state should proceed democracy; the U.S. civil war and various...

from MarcusBastos

Democracy and Liberalism In the second volume of his work in political theory Francis Fukuyama contemplates the development of democracy and it's main characteristics (modern state, rule of law and accountability). Reflecting on the experiences of different countries and regions, the Author discu...

from mnicol

This book does not adequately consider the exceptionalism of South Africa, the only African country where there was a substantial colonial creation of a state, and regimes that employed notions of the rule of law and accountability which, however, excluded the majority of people. But its characte...

from atticusfinch1048

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy Francis Fukuyama has followed up his previous volume The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (2011) with Political Order and Political Decay, which takes us c...