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The Failure of Democratic Nation Building

Ideology Meets Evolution

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Authors: Albert Somit, Steven A. Peterson
  • ISBN: 9780230621121
  • Price: LE 57.20
  • Special Offer Price: LE 45.76
  • Number Of Pages: 184
  • Publication Date: 2010
  • Categories Political Science  
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In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures, and that 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.