Research: Can’t Buy Me Democracy
“Pretty much every agency or nonprofit out there acts under the assumption that if you help people grow economically, this will lead to democracy,” says Simon Johnson, a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Yet the widespread notion that increasing per capita income will cause democracy simply isn’t true, report Johnson and his colleagues in a recent research article. Instead, their analyses of 500 years of data from around the world show that complex historical factors shape both economic and political development, rather than economics determining politics.
Whether your nation is currently democratic and…
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