Wow, what great timing, I wrote about this today: https://acoup.blog/2020/10/30/fireside-friday-october-30-2020/ … This only holds true if you use the artificially small modern democracy sample; get into ancient democracies, this 'emprical matter' turns on its head and we see that democratic deconsolidation was common.https://twitter.com/shadihamid/status/1322203799008743430 …
-
-
exactly! "gigantic, multiethnic democracy" is a strikingly rare thing in human history i don't think we're at all in a position to draw simplistic conclusions about what can and can't happen here
-
Indeed! Strikingly rare to the point of being unique. I actually think that is part of what makes the USA so important: we are a grand experiment in humans not killing each other (currently going not so great), which - with nukes, climate - is something we need to learn to do.
- Näytä vastaukset
Uusi keskustelu -
Lataaminen näyttää kestävän hetken.
Twitter saattaa olla ruuhkautunut tai ongelma on muuten hetkellinen. Yritä uudelleen tai käy Twitterin tilasivulla saadaksesi lisätietoja.