| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 585 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. |
| 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 polities -- 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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State, The -- History.
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Order -- History.
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Comparative government -- History.
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Democracy -- History.
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Comparative government. (OCoLC)fst00871341
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Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
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Order. (OCoLC)fst01047359
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State, The. (OCoLC)fst01131943
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State, The -- History.
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Order -- History.
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Comparative government -- History.
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Democracy -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780374227340 (alk. paper) |
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0374227349 (alk. paper) |
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9780374533229 |
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0374533229 |
| Standard No. |
9780374227340 |
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