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dc.contributor.authorMOURITSEN, Peren
dc.date.accessioned2006-06-09T09:17:38Z
dc.date.available2006-06-09T09:17:38Z
dc.date.issued2001
dc.identifier.citationFlorence : European University Institute, 2001en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/5329
dc.descriptionDefence date: 26 January 2001
dc.descriptionExamining Board: Prof. Richard Bellamy, University of Reading; Prof. Steven Lukes, LSE and New York University (Supervisor); Prof. David Miller, Oxford; Prof. Peter Wagner, EUI
dc.descriptionFirst made available online on 18 April 2018
dc.description.abstractHistorical memoiy is often short, but we all recall the great experience of the popular revolutions in East Central Europe, The collapse of state-socialism had tremendous repercussions all over the world, and a large number of undemocratic regimes, no longer sheltered by East-West bipolarity, have crumbled. Francis Fukuyama made a name for himself by proclaiming the approaching end of history as the victory of liberal-democratic political orders. There is, Fukuyama boldly stated, “a fundamental process at work that dictates a common evolutionary pattern for ail human societies - in short something like a Universal History of mankind in the direction of liberal democracy". Fukuyama was making the broad point that the idea of liberal democracy, or some recognlsably liberal version of the conceptual pair of liberty and equality, was triumphant in the sense that it was no longer rational to imagine better worlds that were not liberal, that attempts to do so were local leftovers, and that, give and take setbacks and delays, governments across the globe would find it increasingly difficult to secure a minimal degree of popular legitimacy, save by taking decisive steps towards conforming to liberal ideas.
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dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUIen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesSPSen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhD Thesisen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject.lcshRepublicanism -- Political aspects
dc.subject.lcshCitizenship
dc.titleThe fragility of liberty : a reconstruction of republican citizenshipen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.identifier.doi10.2870/898339
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