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In The End of History and the Last Man, Francis Fukuyama (1992) boldly contends that post-Cold War liberal democracy has triumphed as the world’s legitimate system of government and may even represent the pinnacle of “mankind’s ideological evolution“. By history Fukuyama means a coherent evolutionary process, and in a nutshell his argument is that liberal democracy and free market economics have become the world’s dominant ideology and have been shown to fulfil two of man’s most fundamental needs — material prosperity and the desire for recognition.
Reference point is his volume “Prospects of Democracy: a study of 172 Countries, London 1997.”
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Braizat, F. (2000). Democracy and Economic Development Testing the Theory and Methods of Tatu Vanhanen. In: Lauth, HJ., Pickel, G., Welzel, C. (eds) Demokratiemessung. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89590-5_11
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