The Resurgence of Executive Primacy in the Age of Populism: Introduction to the Symposium

Abstract

At the end of the twentieth century, after a hundred years of large-scale wars, major financial crashes, and the rise and fall of fascist, Nazi, and communist ideologies, Francis Fukuyama asked the question whether the process of political development in the “West” that had begun, (let us say for the sake of argument) in seventeenth-century England, had culminated in the global establishment of liberal democracy as the gold standard for human social organisation. Show more