The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution
The original version came out in 2005. This is a reprint plus an epilogue that updates our thesis. Nice...
In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures, and that democracy requires very special "enabling conditions" before it can be supported by a state, conditions that require decades to evolve. As a result, attempts to export democracy through nation-building to states without these enabling conditions are doomed to failure.
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This is an effort by my co-author and me to apply the logic of our book, "Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy," to the effort to democratize Iraq and Afghanistan. We'll see how history treats our thesis! The original version came out in 2005. This is a reprint plus an epilogue that updates our thesis. Nice to see this in press!
