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Preface and Part I, Chapters 1-2
• In the Preface, Fukuyama discusses the assumption that the modern political state evolved from tribal groups.
• Fukuyama references New Guinea as an example.
• Sometimes political systems decay.
• Fukuyama's intention is to go through pre-history and through to the French Revolution in his examination on modern political organizations.
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• In Chapter 1, Fukuyama outlines the increase in democratic countries.
• In the 1990's, many governments reverted to authoritarian rule and democracies declined.
• Fukuyama believes that little is said about how modern democracy came to exist.
• There are three different main institutions of modern democracy: the state, the rule of law, and accountable government.
• Fukuyama discusses different governments, like Scandinavia, Russia, China and India.
• In Chapter 2, Fukuyama examines theories of different political theorists, such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Aristotle.
• Aristotle assumed humans are solitary individuals who gave up personal freedoms to become part...
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