Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present Day

Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Present Day is a 2014 book by Yoshihiro Francis Fukuyama, author of The Origins of Political Order, written to shed light on political development in different regions.

Fukuyama stresses the importance of the three pillars of the modern state, as described in the first volume:

These ideas are exemplified throughout the first and the second part of the book via different cases.

Fukuyama makes the argument that patronage behavior is rooted in the following biological roots:

Fukuyama asserts that the U.S. is experiencing political decay, the dynamics of which are explored in the final section of the book. Fukuyama perceives this decay as manifesting in a declining quality of bureaucracy, dysfunctional political divides and political outcomes being captured by special interests rather than being directed towards the broader public good.

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