Tag: Francis Fukuyama
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The Middle-Class Revolution
Wall Street Journal: The Middle-Class Revolution All over the world, argues Francis Fukuyama, today's political turmoil has a common theme: the failure of governments to meet the rising expectations of the newly prosperous and educated. … The theme that connects recent events in Turkey and Brazil to each other, as well as to the 2011…
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What is Governance?
The American Interest: What is Governance? Francis Fukuyama … We Americans tend to believe that democracy is an intrinsic part of good governance and that more democracy means better quality government. … … I have no doubt that more democratic accountability will improve governance in many poor countries in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle…
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The End of History
Beau Weston has a great post a classroom discussion on Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History." At the end of his post, Weston writes: …In the same way, Fukuyama, another kind of Hegelian, identifies democracy and capitalism as the best ways of organizing society without having any vision of what the aim or end of…
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The End of His Story
The End of His Story is a story by Douglas Kern today in TCS Daily responding (negatively) to Fukuyama's recent "After Neoconservatism" piece in the New York Times. In his 1989 magnum opus, The End of History and the Last Man, Fukuyama argued that liberalism was the final ideology, to which reasonable people could find…
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After Neoconservatism
After Neoconservatism is an exceptional article for the New York Times by Francis Fukuyama from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Everything I have learned about economics, politics, and sociology over the years says that prosperity is the catalyst that leads to other social goods like democracy, conservation, education, etc. I…