14 Apr
2003
14 Apr
'03
11:10 a.m.
"R. A. Hettinga" posted:
'The Future of Freedom': Overdoing Democracy By NIALL FERGUSON
THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. By Fareed Zakaria. 286 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $24.95.
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The moral of the story is simple: first get rich (thereby acquiring a middle class, civil society and the rule of law), then democratize. Memo to the Arab world: getting rich on rents from natural resources doesn't count.
That just about wraps it up for the Australians then :-)