'The Future of Freedom': Overdoing Democracy

[Ken Brown]

"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 :-)