The Failure of Democratic Nation-Building: Ideology Meets Evolution

by Albert Somit (Author), StevenA.Peterson (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $60.29

  Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure.

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  Paperback
  2010

  $52.74

  Democracy requires very special 'enabling conditions' before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure.