Democracy may emerge the victor, but it will be after a long and difficult battle. The battle will not be won by pouring in American dollars. A crash program of economic development and industrialization in the midst of a feudal and authoritarian social life will only produce stronger authoritarian institutions, not political democracy.
Questioning the belief that foreign aid and economic development produce democracy in emerging nations.
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