Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department’s policy planning staff. He is the author of The Origins of Political Order, The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. He lives with his wife in California.
The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time.” And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed “this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two.”
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.
I rated this book five star, not because this book answered all questions about how political institutions have been and should be built, but because it shows up the complexity of political order. Political order doesn't come in just one way. Francis summar...
評分在福山新书《政治秩序与政治衰败》的扉页,刘瑜作序《如何到达丹麦》。这里面的丹麦自然不是真正地理意义上的丹麦。而是指一种美好如童话般的状态。具体到政治上,就是一个国家有法治、又民主,政府还高效而廉洁。 《政治秩序的起源》和《政治秩序与政治衰败》两本书是一脉相...
評分 評分【已自我审查,消除了可能引起影射误会的词句,所有的内容绝对没有超出书的尺度】 在我看来《盐铁论》的核心也许是这样一个悖论:桑弘羊主张强化国家权力,搞盐铁大国企,强化国家割韭菜能力,才能有钱养军队,研发大杀器,打击匈奴或土匪,否则就会亡国灭种,当亡国奴。贤良文...
評分為瞭在我導麵前有逼可裝,通宵讀完,太喜歡福山的博學風格瞭,文筆流暢,有許多洞見。
评分在特朗普當選後迴過頭讀這本書,不得不佩服福山和亨廷頓的先見之明。民主因為中産階級的崛起而誕生,也會因為中産階級的衰落而衰落。三權分立分立下的美國政府被各種利益集團、國會議員所騎劫而一無是處。如此下去,美國必然步希臘和意大利的後塵。
评分半年的時間總算把福山這本大部頭給讀完瞭,他對政治秩序三大支柱的論述以及對當今美國政治衰敗的批評仍然迴蕩在腦海之中。我們國內很多人在看瞭福山的這兩本政治秩序的著作之後簡單地認為他已經放棄瞭自己的曆史終結論,但在仔細閱讀他的論述之後發現並非如此。藉用一句經典的名言,可以很好地概括他對於民主和民主製的態度:前途是光明的,道路是麯摺的。
评分比較感興趣的是“POLITICAL DECAY”的部分,篇幅比較少。作為門外漢,感覺這一本算是淺顯詳細(相應的失之泛泛和鬆散)。懷揣門外漢自覺,我應該還是會去迴頭讀第一部,但如果是對政治學有所瞭解的人,大概會覺得這本書缺乏架構與中心思想,流於錶麵瞭。
评分縱觀兩部巨著,太過宏大的野心最終在行文框架中一並衰敗,導緻籠統概括、瑣碎重復太多,遠遠失去瞭在曆史的終結中起碼的流暢。政府能力、法製監管和民主問責的三者平衡並未能在地區間橫嚮對比中得以展開,其發展的先後順序雖有圖錶但實質空乏、無法歸類。新增也是最關鍵的政治衰敗草草談瞭1/5,得齣的結論不過是政治衰敗是政體發展的一個階段,是齣於舊有秩序無法平衡新的利益集團和訴求(達爾文你好),粗淺、薄弱地以美國為例的論據支撐,至於如何後續發展,就隻能交由個體能動性。結尾時硬扯一筆自由民主無關政府能力,作為曆史終結有其獨特的正確,簡直把當年大段黑格爾的論調棄之不顧,明明全兩冊下來都沒有再說自由民主製瞭好嗎。唯一有趣的是福山將國傢能力與官僚自主性畫成瞭一個雙軸圖,提齣要如何接近右斜綫的改革路綫,然而並沒什麼用 M
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