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Book: Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalisation of Democracy
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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    The principle of effective government is meritocracy; the principle of democracy is popular participation. These two principles can be made to work together, but there is always an underlying tension between them.
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  7. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    Clientelism is an efficient form of political mobilization in societies with low levels of income and education, and is therefore best understood as an early form of democracy.
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  8. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    National identity is frequently formed in deliberate opposition to other groups and therefore serves to perpetuate conflict even as it strengthens internal social cohesion. National cohesion may express itself as external aggression. Human beings cooperate in order to compete, and compete to cooperate.
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  9. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    But the impact of national identity on state strength is not limited to its coercive power. Much of what passes for corruption is not simply a matter of greed but rather the by-product of legislators or public officials who feel more obligated to family, tribe, region, or ethnic group than to the national community and therefore divert money in that direction.
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  10. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    Greece thus became one of Europe's first electoral democracies, preceding Britain by a full generation. As in the United States, democracy was established before an indigenous modern state could be created.
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  11. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    Many of the failures attributed to democracy are in fact failures of state administrations that are unable to deliver on the promises made by newly elected democratic politicians to voters who want not just their political rights but good government as well.
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  12. Francis Fukuyama _ Political Order and Political

    War, as we saw in Volume 1, creates incentives for efficient, meritocratic government that ordinary economic activity does not and therefore is one important path to state modernity.
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