![]() ![]() ![]() Political Order and Political Decay is his answer. So which was it: are our current political arrangements part of the solution, or part of the problem? They too might need to be replaced by something better. But here he hinted that liberal democracies were not immune to the pattern of stagnation and decay that afflicted all other political societies. Fukuyama is still best known as the man who announced in 1989 that the birth of liberal democracy represented the end of history: there were simply no better ideas available. That book took the story of political order from prehistoric times to the dawn of modern democracy in the aftermath of the French Revolution. But the first volume of Francis Fukuyama’s epic two-part account of what makes political societies work, published three years ago, left the big question unanswered. ![]() Book Review by David Runciman of “ Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy”, by Francis Fukuyama in the Financial TImes: “It is not often that a 600-page work of political science ends with a cliffhanger. ![]()
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