...be genuinely new durable types. It seems to me that e.g. the Iranian system with pre-vetted candidates and yet free elections is a system that cannot be just seen as "imperfect democracy".
Similar for royalist full-franchise w/o responsible govt like Jordan and Morocco.
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I am surprised that people reacted so strongly to my comment (both positively and negatively). The answer to my comment is not to list multiple area-studies articles. The answer is to consider whether the following is true or not:
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1 The number of alternative political regimes has expanded significantly since 1990s whereas the number of economic regimes has shrunk.
2 But my *impression* is that most of new ways to organize political life are considered as "failed" or "fallen" democracies--while they may...
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Or Ethiopia, Tanzania, Rwanda, Vietnam "political capitalism".
Or multi-party systems with one dominant (elected) party/president.
Whenever I read about China, the Arab Spring or Russia, they are all treated as somehow defective "fallen" regimes.
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Whereas they may not be at all.
Thus, if we judge everything based on the *current* version of Western democracy, we shall see all systems as more or less imperfect versions of Denmark.
But this, I think, is wrong. They are alternative systems, not bad carbon-copies of Denmark.
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