abstract:The Origins of Political Order is a 2011 book by Francis Fukuyama, the first in a series of books on the development of political order. This book goes from its origins to the French Revolution.
Mr Fukuyama (a pupil of Samuel Huntington who wrote a seminal work on politicalorder 40 years ago) begins his own search for theoriginsofpoliticalorder with the shift from small hunting bands to tribes.