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How to Construct Stable Democracies
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 28, Number 1, Winter 2004-05
- pp. 9-20
- Article
- Additional Information
Why are some states politically stable and others not? An extensive study by a dozen experts analyzing political instability during the last 50 years suggests two critical ingredients to succeed (and how to fail) in building stable democracies around the world.