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is the 2014 sequel to Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order . While the first volume traces political development from prehistory to the French Revolution, this second installment examines how modern institutions evolved from the Industrial Revolution to the present—and how they can eventually rot from within. The Three Pillars of Political Order

An example of how war forced the development of a professional, autonomous bureaucracy. Political Order and Political Decay: From the I...

Fukuyama posits that the order in which these institutions develop matters immensely. For instance, countries that developed a strong, professional bureaucracy before democratization (like Prussia/Germany) often have more effective governance than those where democracy arrived before a competent state was built. is the 2014 sequel to Francis Fukuyama's The