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Do you agree with. the view that ‘liberal democracy has won the historic battle of ideologies.

  • UPSC 1992
  • Political Ideologies

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The view is Francis Fukuyama's, set out in "The End of History?" (1989) and The End of History and the Last Man (1992). His claim was normative, not empirical: after fascism's defeat in 1945 and communism's collapse in 1989–91, no rival principle of legitimacy could claim universal appeal, even if many states stayed undemocratic. I…

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