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Francis Fukuyama _ The End of History and the
no man is a good judge in his own case.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Identity: The Demand for
The proponents of identity politics on the left would argue that assertions of identity on the right are illegitimate and cannot be placed on the same moral plane as those of minorities, women, and other marginalized groups. Rather, they reflect the perspectives of a dominant mainstream culture that has been historically privileged and continues to be so. These arguments have obvious truth. Perceptions on the part of conservatives of advantages being unfairly given to minorities, women, or refugees are greatly exaggerated, as is the sense that political correctness has run amok everywhere. Social media contributes heavily to this problem, since a single comment or incident can ricochet around the internet and become emblematic of an entire category of people. The reality for many marginalized groups continues as before: African-Americans continue to be objects of police violence, and women continue to be assaulted and harassed.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political
Latin America has been characterized by a "birth defect" of inequality from which it has not yet recovered.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political
As some observers pointed out at the time, the stability of modern Western Europe was built on ethnic cleansings that had taken place in earlier historical periods, which modern Europeans had conveniently
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Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political
Successful state building is dependent, therefore, on the prior existence of a sense of national identity that serves as a locus of loyalty to the state itself, rather than to the social groups underlying it.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Identity: The Demand for
At the time of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1788, only white males with property had full political rights; the circle of rights bearers gradually expanded to include white men without property, African-Americans, indigenous people, and women.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political
This is the meaning of state autonomy: a government that is responsive to interest groups but not owned by them, that is not too easily swayed by the short-term vagaries of democratic public opinion but rather looks to long-term public interest.
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Francis Fukuyama _ The End of History and the
Christian freedom was an inner condition of the spirit, and not an external condition of the body.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political
But the simple availability of information about corruption tends not to produce genuine accountability because the politically active part of the population are members of clientelistic networks."
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Francis Fukuyama _ Identity: The Demand for
The problem, however, was not with the idea of national identity itself; the problem was the narrow, ethnically based, intolerant, aggressive, and deeply illiberal form that national identity took.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Identity: The Demand for
Fin de siècle Vienna was a melting pot that had produced Gustav Mahler, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Sigmund Freud. But when the empire's narrower national identities-Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs, and Austro-Germans-asserted themselves, the region descended into a paroxysm of violence and intolerance.
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Francis Fukuyama _ Identity: The Demand for
Many modern democratic constitutions thus enshrine the principle of equal dignity. They are drawing on the Christian tradition that sees dignity rooted in human moral agency. But that agency is no longer seen in a religious sense, as the ability to accept God; rather, it is the ability to share in the exercise of power as a member of a democratic political community.
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