Political order and political decay : Fom the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy

By:

Fukuyama Francis

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Publication details: New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2014Description: 668pISBN:

9780374227357

Subject(s):

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

DDC classification:

320.100000 FUK

Contents:

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.

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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.

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