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An example of how war forced the development of a professional, autonomous bureaucracy.

Fukuyama posits that the order in which these institutions develop matters immensely. For instance, countries that developed a strong, professional bureaucracy before democratization (like Prussia/Germany) often have more effective governance than those where democracy arrived before a competent state was built. Political Order and Political Decay: From the I...

A centralized authority with the "executive capability" to exercise power and provide services effectively. An example of how war forced the development

is the 2014 sequel to Francis Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order . While the first volume traces political development from prehistory to the French Revolution, this second installment examines how modern institutions evolved from the Industrial Revolution to the present—and how they can eventually rot from within. The Three Pillars of Political Order A centralized authority with the "executive capability" to

Fukuyama argues that a successful modern state requires a delicate balance of three specific institutions: