TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fukuyama,Francis
AU  - Fukuyama,Francis
TI  - Political order and political decay: from the industrial revolution to the globalization of democracy 
SN  - 0374535620
AV  - JC11 .F853 2015
U1  - 320.01 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - State, The
KW  - History
KW  - Order
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 611-641) and index; Introduction: Development of political institutions to the French Revolution -- 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 the American State Building -- Nation building -- Good government, bad government -- 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; Why did democracy spread? -- From 1848 to the Arab Spring -- The middle class and democracy's future -- 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
N2  - The second volume in a landmark chronicle of the modern state examines how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, discussing such topics as the French Revolution, the Arab Spring, and contemporary American politics
ER  -