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Francis Fukuyama: 'Americans are not very good at nation-building' | Books | The Guardian
24/05/2011
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In his new book, The Origins of Political Order, the author of the The End of History lays down the conditions required for a nation to become a democracy. He talks to Stephen Moss about his fears for our immediate future – but why he is still an optimist
I don't think there's any particular reason why, if you are a liberal democracy, you can't decay. Your institutions can get too rigid; your ideas can get too rigid. I think right now a lot of developed democracies are going to have to renegotiate their basic social contract, because a lot of the welfare state arrangements are just not sustainable, and that's something democracies are really not good at
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