Throughout history authoritarian governments have outnumbered
democratic ones to an overwhelming degree. Even today, true
democracies are an exception. In this book, Somit and Peterson
argue that the main reason for this pattern is that humans are
social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and
authoritarian social and political structures. 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. The
authors argue that money and energy devoted to nation-building
around the globe by the U.S. would be better spent on problems
facing the country domestically.
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