The origins of political order
Subtitle: from prehuman times to the French Revolution
By: Francis Fukuyama
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 608
ISBN-13: 9780374227340
Description: Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Before the State. The necessity of politics; title: The state of nature; title: The tyranny of cousins; title: Tribal societies : property, justice, war; title: The coming of the leviathan.; title: State Building. Chinese tribalism; title: War and the rise of the Chinese state; title: The great Han system; title: Political decay and the return of patrimonial government; title: The Indian detour; title: Varnas and jatis; title: Weaknesses of Indian politics; title: Slavery and the Muslim exit from tribalism; title: The Mamluks save Islam; title: The functioning and decline of the Ottoman state; title: Christianity undermines the family.; title: The Rule of Law. The origins of the rule of law; title: The church becomes a state; title: The state becomes a church; title: Oriental despotism; title: Stationary bandits.; title: Accountable Government. The rise of political accountability; title: Rente seekers; title: Patrimonialism crosses the Atlantic; title: East of the Elbe; title: Toward a more perfect absolutism; title: Taxation and representation; title: Why accountability? Why absolutism?; title: Toward a Theory of Political Development. Political development and political decay; title: Political development, then and now.