PREMIER EVENT: FRANCIS FUKUYAMA

 

 


Premier Event: Francis Fukuyama

Tuesday, November 11, 7:30 p.m.

Political Order and Political Decay

Tickets are available at Kepler's and online at Brown Paper Tickets

Student tickets now available!

 

Political Order and Political Decay is the completion of the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Compared to such seminal thinkers as Jean-Jacques Rosseau, John Locke, John Rawls, and Amartya Sen, Fukuyama boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of entrenched political paralysis in the West.

Fukuyama argues that economic growth produces middle classes that in turn demand accountable institutions,  the kind that make democracies healthy. But powerful elites can end up controlling those very levers of democracy, leading to the political paralysis evident in some Western societies. 

Join the conversation today by submitting your questions for Fukuyama through Google Moderator. The site will be active through November 11th -- you'll be able to view other questions and vote up/down for the questions you want to see asked during the live event. You can check back in at any time.

Broken into sections on "The State", "Foreign Institution", "Democracy", and "Political Decay", Fukuyama gives an account of how state, law, and democracy developed over the last two centuries; how they interacted with one another and with the other economic and social dimensions of development; and, finally, how they have shown signs of decay in the United States and in other developed democracies.  Political Order and Political Decay has been called the companion volume to Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order. Fukuyama writes with intelligence, eloquence, and erudition, making for an enjoyable read and a painless study.

Francis Fukuyama is the Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department's policy planning staff.

Event date: 
Tuesday, November 11, 2014 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
94025-4349 Menlo Park
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Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy By Francis Fukuyama Cover Image
$35.00
Not available
ISBN: 9780374227357
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - September 30th, 2014

The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order By Francis Fukuyama Cover Image
$24.91
ISBN: 9780684865775
Availability: Usually Arrives at Kepler's in 3-14 Days
Published: Free Press - June 15th, 2000

The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution By Francis Fukuyama Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9780374533229
Availability: In Stock at Kepler's Now
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - March 27th, 2012

The End of History and the Last Man By Francis Fukuyama Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780743284554
Availability: Usually Arrives at Kepler's in 3-14 Days
Published: Free Press - March 1st, 2006

America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy By Francis Fukuyama, Francis Fukuyama (Preface by) Cover Image
$23.73
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ISBN: 9780300122534
Published: Yale University Press - March 20th, 2007