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    1.  🎃 💀haunted chick 💀 🎃‏ @hbdchick 2 Sep 2014

      "Are democracies created through the top-down development of political structures and institutions?" -- no. -- http://www.sptimes.com/2004/01/25/Columns/Why_democracy_will_fa.shtml …

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    2. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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      @hbdchick Japan? Germany? *France*?

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    3.  🎃 💀haunted chick 💀 🎃‏ @hbdchick 2 Sep 2014
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      @Scholars_Stage yeah, but...the middle east? africa? latin america? it's essential to have a population that is "just right."

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    4. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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      @hbdchick Mexico has a functioning democracy. Dysfunctional in other ways, of course

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    5. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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      @hbdchick But more important point is that the answer to the question isn't 'no', but 'sure, if conditions x,y, and z are met.'

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       🎃 💀haunted chick 💀 🎃‏ @hbdchick 2 Sep 2014
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      @Scholars_Stage ...dunno about japan. so, the top-down stuff many scholars emphasize might be just a continuation of long-standing trends.

      5:51 AM - 2 Sep 2014
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        2. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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          @hbdchick See for me the question isn't "why did democracy fail in Iraq but work in France" but "why did democracy fail in the France of the

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        3. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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          1780s but work in France of the 1870s." Or "Why did it fail in Japan of 1920s but succeed in Japan of 1950s."

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        4. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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          @hbdchick cuz the populations of Japan of 1955 &1925 were not that different. Essentially the same people, +a baby boom. Explanations of

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        5. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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          @hbdchick for why demo doesn't wrk in a given country that rely on inherit, 'unchangeable' aspects of culture (...or biology) have trouble

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        6. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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          @hbdchick here. Something *changed* in these countries that made democracy possible. And sustainable. What was it? Until we know what 'it'

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        7. T. Greer‏ @Scholars_Stage 2 Sep 2014
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          @hbdchick is, I am unprepared to say that we know functional democracy can't happen in M.E., Africa, etc. in a top-down sort of way.

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        8. Pseudoerasmus‏ @pseudoerasmus 3 Sep 2014
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          @Scholars_Stage @hbdchick freedom house has democracy index scores going back to 1970s, score split into "electoral" & "liberal" components+

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        9. Pseudoerasmus‏ @pseudoerasmus 3 Sep 2014
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          @Scholars_Stage @hbdchick + clearly there's been huge improvement world-wide, more in "electoral" than in "liberal" score, though +

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