Stephen Walt (the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of
international relations at Harvard University) wonders Why Is America So Bad at
Promoting Democracy in Other Countries?
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/04/25/why-is-america-so-bad-at-promoting-democracy-in-other-countries/
The always insightful Roger Cohen observes:
“Liberalism is dead. Or at least it is on the ropes. Triumphant a quarter-century ago, when liberal democracy appeared to have prevailed definitively over the totalitarian utopias that exacted such a toll in blood, it is now under siege from without and within.
Nationalism and authoritarianism, reinforced by technology, have come together to exercise new forms of control and manipulation over human beings whose susceptibility to greed, prejudice, ignorance, domination, subservience and fear was not, after all, swept away by the fall of the Berlin Wall.”
Facing Up to the Democratic Recession
by Larry Diamond
The Democratic Transition by Fabrice
Murtin & Romain Wacziarg
Abstract: Over the last two centuries, many countries
experienced regime transitions toward democracy. We document this democratic
transition over a long time horizon. We use historical time series of income,
education and democracy levels from 1870 to 2000 to explore the economic
factors associated with rising levels of democracy. We find that primary
schooling, and to a weaker extent per capita income levels, are strong determinants
of the quality of political institutions. We find little evidence of causality
running the other way, from democracy to income or education.
Why Democracies Fail: Lessons from Mali?
How democratic institutions are making
dictatorships more durable
Economic development promotes democracy, but
there’s a catch
Burundi
Djibouti
https://www.opendemocracy.net/joshua-neicho/opening-up-democracy-in-djibouti-great-powers-and-little-battalionsTurkey
http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-eleventh-hour-for-turkish-democracy