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Francis Fukuyama talks about his new book "Political Order and Political Decay"
Tuesday, November 11, 7:30pm - Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Kepler's Books 1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025
Some tickets are still available at the door.
"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 (http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=2192ba) The site will be active up through the event -- 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 to join the conversation.
Broken into sections on The State, Foreign Institutions, 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 University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. He has previously taught at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the George Mason University School of Public Policy. Fukuyama was a researcher at the RAND Corporation and served as the deputy director for the State Department's policy planning staff. He is the author of "The Origins of Political Order", "The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy.
Read more about the book at Stanford News (http://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/fukuyama-politics-book-100614.html)
Ticket Information:
$40.00 -- Premier Ticket. Includes 1 copy of "Political Order and Political Decay", premier seating, and priority in the signing line. $20.00 -- General Admission. Does not include book. $10.00 -- Student Admission.
The book will be available for pickup at the event.
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LocationKepler's Books (View)
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025
United States
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