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Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of Mercosur. By Laura Gómez-Mera. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013

Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of Mercosur. By Laura Gómez-Mera. Notre... 622 Book Reviews Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. By Francis Fukuyama. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. This is the second of Francis Fukuyama’s two-volume set on political order. In this volume, Fukuyama focuses on the development of political orders that permit innovation, growth, and the promotion of well-being and that guarantee certain basic liberties and rights. Three aspects are distinctive about Fukuyama’s approach to political institutions, in contrast to other recent big books on political institutions, including Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, 2012) and Violence and Social Orders (Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast, 2009). First, Fukuyama highlights the importance of state capacity, especially in terms of the development of a merit-based autonomous bureaucracy, as central to the development of society more generally. Oftentimes, these capable states emerge before democratization occurs. Second, Fukuyama shows that social and economic conditions, especially in terms of a growing middle class with an interest in the rule of law and a willingness to compete for the electoral support of lower classes, must be right for democratization to occur. Third, Fukuyama shows that well-developed democratic political orders can decay. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations Brill

Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of Mercosur. By Laura Gómez-Mera. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013

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622 Book Reviews Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. By Francis Fukuyama. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. This is the second of Francis Fukuyama’s two-volume set on political order. In this volume, Fukuyama focuses on the development of political orders that permit innovation, growth, and the promotion of well-being and that guarantee certain basic liberties and rights. Three aspects are distinctive about Fukuyama’s approach to political institutions, in contrast to other recent big books on political institutions, including Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, 2012) and Violence and Social Orders (Douglass North, John Wallis, and Barry Weingast, 2009). First, Fukuyama highlights the importance of state capacity, especially in terms of the development of a merit-based autonomous bureaucracy, as central to the development of society more generally. Oftentimes, these capable states emerge before democratization occurs. Second, Fukuyama shows that social and economic conditions, especially in terms of a growing middle class with an interest in the rule of law and a willingness to compete for the electoral support of lower classes, must be right for democratization to occur. Third, Fukuyama shows that well-developed democratic political orders can decay.

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