Download or read book Political Order and Political Decay written by Francis Fukuyama and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 mankind's 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, finally, how in the United States and in other developed democracies, unmistakable signs of decay have emerged