Fukuyama

We’re too much afflicted with what political scientist Francis Fukuyama calls a “vetocracy.”

Liberal democracy in the abstract may be the best system of government, as Fukuyama argues, but it will face serious challenges in the years and decades ahead.

The political scientist Francis Fukuyama meant it to mean the end of the search for the best system of government, which was answered after the collapse of Communism at the end of the Cold War.

“In the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government … the United States has just switched sides,” Stanford democracy scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote.

That dominant view was the background assumption behind Francis Fukuyama’s much-celebrated 1992 book "The End of History and the Last Man," which argued that the end of the Cold War marked the endpoint of humanity’s ideological evolution, with "the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government."