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THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL ORDER
By: Francis Fukuyama
From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
April 2011
On Sale: April 12, 2011
608 pages
ISBN: 0374227349
EAN: 9780374227340
Hardcover
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Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their constituents. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of todayβs developing countriesβwith often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world. Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man and one of our most important political thinkers, provides a sweeping account of how todayβs basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work, The Origins of Political Order begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of the rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution. Drawing on a vast body of knowledgeβhistory, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economicsβFukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics and its discontents.
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