The origins of political order : from prehuman times to the French Revolution / Francis Fukuyama.
Fukuyama, Francis.
2011
JC11 .F85 2011 (Mapit)
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Title The origins of political order : from prehuman times to the French Revolution / Francis Fukuyama.
Author Fukuyama, Francis.
Edition 1st ed.
ISBN 9780374227340 (alk. paper)
0374227349 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Language English
Description xiv, 585 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number JC11 .F85 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification 320.9
Summary Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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 polities
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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