Developing Nations | Democracy Can Succeed in Developing Nations

About the author: Leon Aron is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C., think tank that promotes limited government, private enterprise, and a strong foreign policy and national defense.

The post–cold war era has produced something new in world history: an abundance of poor democracies. There are now some seventy nations with a gross domestic product (GDP) below $10,000 per capita and with the basic attributes of democratic government. These regimes have been greeted in the West mostly with scorn and condescension. In reading about them, we...

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