The Future of Freedom
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The Future of Freedom
| Full title | The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad |
|---|---|
| Author | Fareed Zakaria |
| Published | 2003 |
| Pages | 304 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Zakaria pulls apart two things the West treats as one — democracy, a method of selecting rulers, and constitutional liberalism, a set of constraints on them — and argues that exporting elections without the institutions produces “illiberal democracy,” a government with a mandate and no restraints. The uncomfortable second half turns the argument on the United States, reading the erosion of insulated institutions as democratisation producing worse government. |
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 12 in the closing Biography and Others section, next to Zakaria’s The Post-American World and Graham Allison’s Destined for War — a cluster about where political and geopolitical order is heading. For an investor whose capital sits in both the American and the Chinese systems, the distinction is not academic.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the bibliography this came from.
- Fareed Zakaria — author; the list also carries The Post-American World.
- Democracy · Liberalism — the two things the book insists are separate.
What links here
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