EXPANDING FUKUYAMA’S THEORY OF SEQUENTIAL INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT. So Francis

EXPANDING FUKUYAMA’S THEORY OF SEQUENTIAL INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

So Francis Fukuyama argues that a professional bureaucracy must form prior to enfranchisement to prevent corruption.

This is slightly different from the thesis that the party and voting conditions determine the quality of policy. Both of which are insignificant from my perspective compared to universal standing, rule of law, and property rights.

But I am fairly certain that Fukuyama’s theory applies to the enfranchisement of women: early enfranchisement of women will have turned out to have been as bad as democracy prior to the professionalization of the bureaucracy.

Worse, early enfranchisement of women, EXACERBATED the problem of an unprofessional bureaucracy.

Why?

Because the labor movement didn’t work. They couldn’t get the working classes to adopt cosmopolitan immoralism (socialism). However, they COULD get women and minorities to adopt it.

And then use it to populate the bureaucracy.

I wonder if I could get the good professor to answer that one.