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Fukuyama

What Francis Fukuyama was saying in this famous essay from 1989 is that there was no longer any competition between political ideologies the way that there had been for most of the course of history. He was arguing that this competition had ended and that liberal democracy was now accepted as the only form of government that has great legitimacy. I would tend to agree with Fukuyama, though I have some misgivings about doing so.
Since communism fell, not every country has become democratic. Instead, you have many countries that are authoritarian (Russia and China, for instance) as well as many countries that are theocratic (Iran and Saudi Arabia). One might argue that these ideologies ...

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and in favor of some form of liberal democracy. This implies that liberal democracy has won the argument in the minds of most people and that the end of history has truly ...

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Added: 4/19/2011 12:09:58 AM
Submitted By: artjane1
Category: Economics
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