State-Building : : Governance and World Order in the 21st Century /

State-Building : : Governance and World Order in the 21st Century / / Francis Fukuyama.

Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Fukuyama, Francis,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Messenger Lectures
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.) :; 10 line drawings, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness
  • Introduction
  • The Contested Role of the State
  • Scope versus Strength
  • Scope, Strength, and Economic Development
  • The New Conventional Wisdom
  • The Supply of Institutions
  • The Demand for Institutions
  • Making Things Worse
  • 2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration
  • Introduction
  • Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations
  • The Ambiguity of Goals
  • Principals, Agents, and Incentives
  • Decentralization and Discretion
  • Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel
  • Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications
  • 3. Weak States and International Legitimacy
  • Introduction
  • The New Empire
  • The Erosion of Sovereignty
  • Nation-Building
  • Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level
  • Beyond the Nation-State
  • 4. Smaller but Stronger
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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