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 of Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director in the State Department’s policy planning staff. He is the author of 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.
Virtually all human societies were once organized tribally, yet over time most developed new political institutions which included a central state that could keep the peace and uniform laws that applied to all citizens. Some went on to create governments that were accountable to their citizens. We take these institutions for granted, but they are absent or are unable to perform in many of today’s developing countries—with often disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.
In The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama, author of the bestselling The End of History and the Last Man, provides a sweeping account of how today’s basic political institutions developed. The first of a major two-volume work begins with politics among our primate ancestors and follows the story through the emergence of tribal societies, the growth of the first modern state in China, the beginning of a rule of law in India and the Middle East, and the development of political accountability in Europe up until the eve of the French Revolution.
Drawing on a vast body of knowledge—history, evolutionary biology, archaeology, and economics—Fukuyama has produced a brilliant, provocative work that offers fresh insights on the origins of democratic societies and raises essential questions about the nature of politics.
封底的推荐语把这本书与戴蒙德的著作相提并论,颇有些道理。戴蒙德跨界人类学、历学、生物学,从中提炼了了不得的理论。本书的主题虽然是政治学,但其基础同样是从人类学和历史学领域所采集的大量事实。说是大量,和自然科学的研究对象比起来却小得可怜。物理学家有无尽的粒子...
评分Dimensions of Development Francis Fukuyama Stanford University 17 October 2012 The subject of the most recent book called Origin of Political, from pre-human to France revolution. Many of the views of traditional China are based on the Qing Dynasty. We...
评分从题目就可以看出,本书是一部雄心勃勃的历史宏大叙述。和《历史的终结》一样,作者仍在寻找历史发展的一般规律。但和《历史的终结》不同,前者“为获得认可的斗争”更多地是抽象的推理,本书则试图使用大量人类学和历史的证据。 按照作者的理论,现代政治制度应该包括三部分...
评分这本书里对当前世界各国的政治形态的观察很总结挺重要的。其对政治形态的起源的探讨也很系统,至少可为一家之言. This transformation was Samuel Huntington’s third wave of democratization; liberal democracy as the default form of government became part of the accep...
反复读中英文版,仍然无法赞同。奇妙的是从来没有读过post-french revolution那一半。
评分一个看起来很庞大的主题梳理得很清晰,挺有启发,特别是引用进化论来解释政治秩序的发展。
评分50人打分9.3(考虑到原版以及页数情况)相当高,GoodReads上也有1553个人评价平均4.00也不低——但为啥觉得福山就是一副死鸭子嘴硬兼死猪不怕开水烫的架势呢?虽然我很喜欢
评分放弃了历史的终结之说了啊。。。
评分Masterpiece! A big picture that doesn't lose details
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