About the Book: Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial
Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama took us from the dawn of
mankind to the French and American Revolutions. Here, he picks up the thread
again in the second instalment of his definitive account of mankinds emergence
as a political animal. This is the story of how state, law and democracy
developed after these cataclysmic events, how the modern landscape - with its
uneasy tension between dictatorships and liberal democracies - evolved and how
in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of
decay have emerged.