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Summary:

Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.

Table of Contents:

• part I: Before the state. The necessity of politics
• The state of nature
• The tyranny of cousins
• Tribal societies : property, justice, war
• The coming of the leviathan
• part II: State building. Chinese tribalism
• War and the rise of the Chinese state
• The great Han system
• Political decay and the return of patrimonial government
• The Indian detour
• Varnas and jatis
• Weaknesses of Indian politics
• Slavery and the Muslim exit from tribalism
• The Mamluks save Islam
• The functioning and decline of the Ottoman state
• - Christianity undermines the family
• part III: The rule of law. The origins of the rule of law
• The church becomes a state
• The state becomes a church
• Oriental despotism

• Stationary bandits
• part IV: Accountable government. The rise of political accountability
• Rente seekers
• Patrimonialism crosses the Atlantic
• East of the Elbe
• Toward a more perfect absolutism
• Taxation and representation
• Why accountability? Why absolutism?
• part V: Toward a theory of political development. Political development and political decay
• Political development, then and now.

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Author/Creator:

Fukuyama, Francis

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French Revolution [by Fukuyama, F.]

Subjects:

State, The — History

Order — History

Comparative government — History

Democracy — History

State, The

Order

Comparative government

Democracy

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

xiv, 585 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Call Numbers:

JC11 .F85 2011

ISBNs:

9780374227340 (alk. paper)
0374227349 (alk. paper)

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2010038534

OCLC Numbers:

650212556