Political Order and Political Decay

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.

出版者:Farrar, Straus and Giroux

作者:Francis Fukuyama

页数:672

出版时间:2014-9-30

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780374227357

图书标签:政治学福山政治哲学比较政治政治Politics历史社会学

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.

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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...  

Political Order and Political Decay最大的遗憾不是在于它的内容，而是在于它对于福山本人的意义。本书发行后，许多评论认为它代表了自《历史的终结》之后，福山对于当代政治新的思考，象征他思想的转变。不得不说，这种看法实在过高估计了这本书的定位。 Political Order an...  

Political Order and Political Decay最大的遗憾不是在于它的内容，而是在于它对于福山本人的意义。本书发行后，许多评论认为它代表了自《历史的终结》之后，福山对于当代政治新的思考，象征他思想的转变。不得不说，这种看法实在过高估计了这本书的定位。 Political Order an...  

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年度最后一本书，献给福山

在特朗普当选后回过头读这本书，不得不佩服福山和亨廷顿的先见之明。民主因为中产阶级的崛起而诞生，也会因为中产阶级的衰落而衰落。三权分立分立下的美国政府被各种利益集团、国会议员所骑劫而一无是处。如此下去，美国必然步希腊和意大利的后尘。

纵观两部巨著，太过宏大的野心最终在行文框架中一并衰败，导致笼统概括、琐碎重复太多，远远失去了在历史的终结中起码的流畅。政府能力、法制监管和民主问责的三者平衡并未能在地区间横向对比中得以展开，其发展的先后顺序虽有图表但实质空乏、无法归类。新增也是最关键的政治衰败草草谈了1/5，得出的结论不过是政治衰败是政体发展的一个阶段，是出于旧有秩序无法平衡新的利益集团和诉求（达尔文你好），粗浅、薄弱地以美国为例的论据支撑，至于如何后续发展，就只能交由个体能动性。结尾时硬扯一笔自由民主无关政府能力，作为历史终结有其独特的正确，简直把当年大段黑格尔的论调弃之不顾，明明全两册下来都没有再说自由民主制了好吗。唯一有趣的是福山将国家能力与官僚自主性画成了一个双轴图，提出要如何接近右斜线的改革路线，然而并没什么用 M

年度最后一本书，献给福山

半年的时间总算把福山这本大部头给读完了，他对政治秩序三大支柱的论述以及对当今美国政治衰败的批评仍然回荡在脑海之中。我们国内很多人在看了福山的这两本政治秩序的著作之后简单地认为他已经放弃了自己的历史终结论，但在仔细阅读他的论述之后发现并非如此。借用一句经典的名言，可以很好地概括他对于民主和民主制的态度：前途是光明的，道路是曲折的。