Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two

by Hanzi Freinacht

Origins of Political Order (vol.1) and Political Order and Political Decay (vol.2).[27] Fukuyama argues there are three major ingredients of a modern liberal democracy: A meritocratic state bureaucracy (where people are loyal to society as a whole, not only to their family or clan) Accountability of the government (with a strong civil society capable of self-organizing and sometimes resisting the power of the state) Rule of law (i.e. that laws are upheld and the government is restrained by the same laws as everyone else) As we see today, some countries display all three characteristics (Western democracies), some display two (Latin American countries have states and accountability but generally a weak rule of law) and some display only one (like China, which has only a strong state bureaucracy and a limited form of rule of law).