The contemporary world lacks an institutionally creative ideology. In this milieu democracy will not appear just because it is needed or desired. Instead, we are likely to see anemic polities that mix weak authoritarianism with weak democracy in unnamed, novel, and even bizarre ways.
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Ken Jowitt (1996) studied this question.
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