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Political Order and Political Decay (eBook) by Francis Fukuyama

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  • Author: Francis Fukuyama
  • Print Length:‎ 609 pages
  • The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state.
  • 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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Various Retailers have Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy (eBook) on sale for $1.99.

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Available from:Product Details:
  • Author: Francis Fukuyama
  • Print Length:‎ 609 pages
  • The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state.
  • 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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Decay? We're now in a time of total, stinking rot. A timely read. Good deal.
After the "End of history"- I wonder: who still reads that fraud Fukuyama?
best read during current regime.

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Decay? We're now in a time of total, stinking rot. A timely read. Good deal.
Last edited by rootbear March 8, 2025 at 09:38 PM.
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best read during current regime.
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I have the hardback and may pick up the kindle to free some shelf space. Highly recommend the first book in the series as well.
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After the "End of history"- I wonder: who still reads that fraud Fukuyama?
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Quote from DelightfulRoute116 :
After the "End of history"- I wonder: who still reads that fraud Fukuyama?
People who fancy themselves on the "right side of history" feel reassured when he tells them that it's a long, one-way march, with utopia just around the corner.

The reality that history is cyclical, that we aren't uniquely enlightened, and that their political hegemony may be another passing fad, is uncomfortable for many in the Professional-Managerial Class.
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Quote from DelightfulRoute116 :
After the "End of history"- I wonder: who still reads that fraud Fukuyama?
"But supposing the world has become 'filled up', so to speak, with liberal democracies, such as there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle? Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against the just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy."

If you actually *read* the End of History you'll find that Fukuyama had a great deal useful to say about our current situation. It's anything but a triumphalist story.
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Don't know what I'm enjoying more; the comments, or the thumbs up/thumbs down ratings on the comments. Those ratings are pretty much 50/50, which in and of itself tells you where we are right now as a society.
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hey, empires fall. this one has been attempting its best from within for many years
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Quote from booboloo :
Defunding graft is the opposite of decay.
Then why did they elect a conman grifter whose steals from veterans, pushes ponzi scamcoins, while pardoning bribery criminals, and empower a billionaire illegal immigrant dependent on social government corporate-welfare handouts who is laying off real Americans while assigning himself new contracts -- all while pushing the economy into multi-trillion losses in the stock market, heading towards a recession, while saving only a few million in cuts?

Grift grift grift. The billionaire magascam is transparent now.
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Quote from Citizen :
Then why did they elect a conman grifter whose steals from veterans, pushes ponzi scamcoins, while pardoning bribery criminals, and empower a billionaire illegal immigrant dependent on social government corporate-welfare handouts who is laying off real Americans while assigning himself new contracts -- all while pushing the economy into multi-trillion losses in the stock market, heading towards a recession, while saving only a few million in cuts?

Grift grift grift. The billionaire magascam is transparent now.
Don't forget false "facts", redefined a new low for politician and defunding our government while pushing Russian agenda and alienating every ally we have. Those allies, we've spent a lifetime to build those relationships.

Meanwhile, China is expanding co-operation and building allies while we're wreaking havoc in our own country.

I'd argue he's not just a conman grifter, but a traitor to our nation.
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Quote from booboloo :
Defunding graft is the opposite of decay.
Sure, if you consider our entire government "graft" including all our rights. You know, the sort of thing that keeps us all safe.

PS, dictatorship is very efficient. You don't have any rights, and thus there's nothing to contest. It's what they tell you it is, end of story. No need to consider others. Our dictator knows best.
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Quote from gamingdroid :
Sure, if you consider our entire government "graft" including all our rights. You know, the sort of thing that keeps us all safe.
You've jumped the shark.

The conman is tanking our economy, ignoring court orders, and stealing our national treasure.
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Quote from gamingdroid :
I'd argue he's not just a conman grifter, but a traitor to our nation.
Agreed. Its greed. People keep looking for agendas, and all they need to understand is greed.

For example, Putin doesn't have an agenda of rebuilding the Soviet Union. He just wanted to become the richest man on earth (and by most measures he is, if you consider his non-official accounts), through theft of his own people. Trump wants in on that business. Its been Elons business from the first day he took government subsidies, he's been hooked like a crack-addict ever since.
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Quote from Citizen :
Then why did they elect a conman grifter whose steals from veterans, pushes ponzi scamcoins, while pardoning bribery criminals, and empower a billionaire illegal immigrant dependent on social government corporate-welfare handouts who is laying off real Americans while assigning himself new contracts -- all while pushing the economy into multi-trillion losses in the stock market, heading towards a recession, while saving only a few million in cuts?

Grift grift grift. The billionaire magascam is transparent now.
Biden dumped 2 billion on Stacey Abrams alone, a broke woman with an organization with no experience running anything, and that was part of an 20 billion dollar giveaway with no accountability.

Your talking points are so bad I don't think you've ever read any books. The banks were flying the rainbow flag for a decade, and you dare pretend you aren't on the side of the billionaire class. Simply incredible.

Not even the ActBlue democrat PAC is holding up to scrutiny now, just a mechanism for laundering money and so the executives have fled. They were funding the domestic terrorism against Tesla.

We've already established your party is basically a money laundering racket stealing public money, the only question is how bad it really is.

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