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Fukuyama Francis

Political order and political decay : Fom the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy - New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014 - 668p

Contents:
Introduction: Development of political institutions to the French Revolution
Part I: The State. What is political development? ;
The dimensions of development ; Bureaucracy ;
Prussia builds a state ;
Corruption ;
The birthplace of democracy ;
Italy and the low-trust equilibrium ;
Patronage and reform ;
The United States invents clientelism ;
The end of the spoils system ;
Railroads, forests, and American state building ;
Nation building ;
Good government, bad government
Part II: Foreign institutions. Nigeria ;
Geography ;
Silver, gold, and sugar ;
Dogs that didn't bark ;
The clean slate ;
Storms in Africa ;
Indirect rule ;
institutions,
domestic or imported ;
Lingua francas ;
The strong Asian state ;
The struggle for law in China ;
The reinvention of the Chinese state ;
Three regions
Part III: Democracy. Why did democracy spread? ;
The long road to democracy ;
From 1848 to the Arab Spring ;
The middle class and democracy's future
Part IV: Political decay. Political decay ;
A state of courts and parties ;
Congress and the repatrimonialization of American politics ;
America the vetocracy ;
Autonomy and subordination ;
Political order and political decay.

ISBN: 9780374227357

Subjects--Topical Terms:
1. State - Order - History2. Comparative Government3. Democracy - Globalization - Political Aspects4. Political Science - History & Theory

Dewey Class. No.: 320.100000 / FUK