Fewer scholars on the right thought communism had achieved a broad legitimacy, but they for the most part believed that legitimacy counted for much less than power in that system. 6For one of the standard works on the subject of legitimacy in the former USSR, see T. H. Rigby and Ferenc ...
relativism degenerated into relativism tout court, however Hegel believed that history culminated in an absolute moment - a moment in which a final, rational form of society and state became victorious. It is Hegel's misfortune to be known now primarily as Marx's precursor, and it is our ...
Scholar Francis Fukuyama and former Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson talk about China, Wall Street, and the global financial crisis.Francis Fukuyama is the author of "The End of History and the Last Man." Henry Paulson is the former US secretary of the Treasury, whose recent memoir, "On the...
其对政治形态的起源的探讨也很系统,至少可为一家之言.This transformation was Samuel Huntington’s third wave of democratization; liberal democracy as the default form of government became part of the accepted political landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century.(如今这一浪潮一方面继续扩散,...
Francis Fukuyama, American writer and political theorist perhaps best known for his belief that the triumph of liberal democracy at the end of the Cold War marked the last ideological stage in the progression of human history. Learn more about his life a
(7) No association could maintain a democratic government for very long if a majority of thedēmos—or a majority of the government—believed that some other form of government were better. Thus, a minimum condition for the continued existence of a democracy is that a substantial proportion of...