作者：FrancisFukuyama
出版社：Farrar,StrausandGiroux
副标题：FromtheIndustrialRevolutiontotheGlobalizationofDemocracy
出版年：2014-9-30
页数：672
定价：USD35.00
装帧：Hardcover
ISBN：9780374227357
内容简介
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The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time.” And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed “this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two.”
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
作者简介
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Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department’s policy planning staff. He is the author of The Origins of Political Order, The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.
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比较感兴趣的是“POLITICAL DECAY”的部分，篇幅比较少。作为门外汉，感觉这一本算是浅显详细（相应的失之泛泛和松散）。怀揣门外汉自觉，我应该还是会去回头读第一部，但如果是对政治学有所了解的人，大概会觉得这本书缺乏架构与中心思想，流于表面了。
强政府、法治、民主问责的排列组合。浓缩成一章也就足够，写这么厚的书也是醉了。
为了在我导面前有逼可装，通宵读完，太喜欢福山的博学风格了，文笔流畅，有许多洞见。
扫盲和加深理解，断断续续读了近一年 clientelism, patronage, path of democratization, nation state building.
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