The Failure of Democratic Nation Building

副标题: Ideology Meets Evolution

ISBN: 9781403967817

出版社: Palgrave Macmillan

出版年: 2005-11-10

页数: 159

定价: USD 65.00

装帧: Hardcover

内容简介

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.