内容简介
“人类政治从何而来？”
“人类政治在哪里？”
“人类政治向何处去？”
对于政治领域的关键三问，本书从演化论视角给出了回应。聚焦人类政治演化的基本脉络，本书将不同政体与政治模式视为一个个“政治物种”，分析早期国家诞生的社会条件，从国家分化与演化的维度阐述城邦国家、一般国家、帝国的兴起与衰落，从政体分化与演化的维度讨论君主政体、封建政体、立宪政体、民主政体的差异与转换，以及人类不同群体在塑造有效国家与有效约束国家上的一系列差异如何形塑了不同时空的政治模式。
如果将人类政治演化比喻为一条大河，那么理解这条大河过去的基本流向后，或许就会更加明了今天我们所处的位置以及未来要抵达的方向。
作者简介
包刚升
复旦大学国际关系与公共事务学院教授，主要研究领域为政治理论、比较政治与政治史，著有《民主崩溃的政治学》《政治学通识》《民主的逻辑》等。其中，《民主崩溃的政治学》获评“《新京报》2014年度社科书”，并于2022年由英国劳特利奇出版社（Routledge）出版全球英文版。
Content introduction
"Where does human politics come from?"
"Where is human politics?"
"Where is human politics headed?"
The book responds to three key questions in politics from an evolutionary perspective. Focusing on the basic context of human political evolution, this book regards different political regimes and political models as a "political species", analyzes the social conditions for the birth of early states, and expounds the rise and fall of city-states, general states, and empires from the dimensions of state differentiation and evolution. From the dimension of polity differentiation and evolution, this paper discusses the differences and transformations of monarchies, feudals, constitutionals and democracies, as well as how a series of differences between different groups of human beings in shaping effective states and effectively constraining states have shaped political models of different time and space.
If human political evolution is likened to a great river, then understanding the basic course of that river in the past may shed more light on where we are today and where we want to go in the future.
About the author
Bao Gangsheng
Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs, Fudan University. His research interests include political theory, comparative politics, and political history. He is the author of the Politics of Democratic Breakdown, General Politics, and The Logic of Democracy. Among them, The Politics of the Collapse of Democracy was awarded the "2014 Social Science Book of the Year" by the Beijing News, and was published in English by Routledge in 2022.
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