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Why does Democracy fail In Developing Countries

In their attempts to explain why democracies fail, academics frequently point to economic performance. However, this paper in the Journal of Democracy examines new data on emerging democracies and makes the case that political institutions are essential for the development of democracy. Institutions that effectively restrain executive power are particularly crucial. Strategies for donor support must be maintained for the first five years of a new democracy and should work to broaden the distribution of political and economic power.<br>

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Why does Democracy fail In Developing Countries

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  1. Why does Democracy fail In Developing Countries?

  2. In their attempts to explain why democracies fail, academics frequently point to economic performance. However, this paper in the Journal of Democracy examines new data on emerging democracies and makes the case that political institutions are essential for the development of democracy.

  3. Institutions that effectively restrain executive power are particularly crucial. Strategies for donor support must be maintained for the first five years of a new democracy and should work to broaden the distribution of political and economic power.

  4. The conventional wisdom holds that there is a link between weak economic growth and democratic backsliding.

  5. The aid programs of the industrial world may have the causal chain backward if sustained economic progress relies on the strength of a nation's institutions. The degree to which the advantages of financial reform are widely shared, though, is what matters most. Political institutions must be taken into account in addition to economic factors.

  6. But the data do not support this association. Wajid khan says the evidence indicates that economic transformation is not inimical to democracy and can even help it.

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