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Francis Fukuyama
Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and author. He is Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Mosbacher Director of FSI’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), and Director of Stanford’s Masters in International Policy Program. Fukuyama writes widely on issues relating to democratisation and international political economy, and first shot to prominence with an article “The End of History?” in 1989.
Books by Francis Fukuyama
Liberalism and Its Discontents
by Francis Fukuyama
It’s a good time to reflect on liberal democracy, and Francis Fukuyama has a new, short, book out: Liberalism and its Discontents, addressing both what it is and some of the challenges it faces from both left and right. He’s a clear thinker and talked about which other books to read about liberal democracy in our most recent interview with him.
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama
What I was trying to do in my two Political Order books is to say that a liberal democracy consists of three separate sets of institutions. One is the state, which is all about power and using power. The second is the rule of law, which are rules that limit power. And then the third is democratic accountability, which makes sure that the power is used in accordance with the wishes of the people. And I think that when people use the word democracy, they’re referring to all three of those, kind of indiscriminately.
The best books on Liberal Democracy recommended by Francis Fukuyama
After the End of History: Conversations with Francis Fukuyama
by Francis Fukuyama & Mathilde Fasting
The book started out as a series of conversations I had with the author Mathilde Fasting, who runs a liberal think tank in Norway. It was a way to expand on a lot of ideas that I’ve had on different subjects.
The best books on Liberal Democracy recommended by Francis Fukuyama
“This two-volume book is basically a very extended study of history from that starting point of ‘What happens if you look at history as a convergent evolutionary path that seems to end in liberal democracy?” Read more...
The best books on How the World Works
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Interviews with Francis Fukuyama
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The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World
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Ill Winds: Saving Democracy from Russian Rage, Chinese Ambition, and American Complacency
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How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
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Polyarchy: Participation and Opposition
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Democracy in America
by Alexis de Tocqueville
The best books on Liberal Democracy, recommended by Francis Fukuyama
The best books on Liberal Democracy, recommended by Francis Fukuyama
Even some of the world’s most authoritarian rulers continue to pay lip service to democracy and people’s right to vote for their leaders, but the days when many social scientists believed that all countries at a certain level of prosperity would eventually turn to liberal democracy are over, says Francis Fukuyama, now a Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute. Here, he recommends books to better understand liberal democracy, and what those of us lucky enough to live in one can do to protect our form of government.
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This Time Is Different
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The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
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Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten The World Economy
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13 Bankers
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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report
by FCIC
Francis Fukuyama recommends the best books on the The Financial Crisis
Francis Fukuyama recommends the best books on the The Financial Crisis
The author of “The End of History” says the financial crisis revealed a great deal about the nature of America’s political and economic system. The shame, he says, is that opportunities to change it are now being ignored.
Interviews where books by Francis Fukuyama were recommended
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The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution
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Seeing Like a State
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The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
The best books on How the World Works, recommended by Venkatesh Rao
The best books on How the World Works, recommended by Venkatesh Rao
Armed with one of the ‘big histories’ currently in vogue, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and a tome about how modern maths came to be, you too can get a grip on how the world works. Tech blogger Venkatesh Rao chooses some good books for those who agree with Socrates that ‘for a human being, the unexamined life is not worth living.’
