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Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.
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The origins of political order: from prehuman times to the French Revolution
2011, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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in English
- 1st ed.
0374227349 9780374227340
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Table of Contents
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.
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.
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.
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?
Toward a Theory of Political Development. Political development and political decay
Political development, then and now.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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