![]() ![]() ![]() Fukuyama pithily sums up this world-historical process as "getting to Denmark. This temporal division marks the beginning of the period in which a particular set of political institutions-the modern state, the rule of law and accountable government-developed, with increasing speed, into the dominant model of sociopolitical organization around the world. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracyem /em Francis Fukuyama. Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy. Fukuyama's earlier book discussed all of human history up to Napoleon's 1806 victory at Jena, this volume more modestly confines itself to the subsequent period through the present day. Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyamas Origins of Political Order 'magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition. Between these two volumes, he ranges across a good span of recorded history (and before), mining lessons about "the underlying rules by which societies organize themselves" as he seeks to update his mentor Samuel Huntington's classic 1968 work of political sociology, "Political Order in Changing Societies." The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state. ![]() If the title were not already taken, "A Brief History of Time" might serve to describe Francis Fukuyama's latest opus, "Political Order and Political Decay," together with its prequel, "The Origins of Political Order" (2011). ![]()
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