Question

Give reason for the spread of democracy

Answer 1

Three reasons.

1. Democracy works better—democratic countries and their people are healthier and wealthier than the non-democracies and the democracies won in WW2. That is to say democracies are more stable.

2. Some citizens in non-democracies agitate for democracy. They are suppressed but they often don’t give up and sometimes they succeed. Citizens in democracies who agitate for autocracy are not suppressed but don’t get anywhere for they are regarded as dills.

3. Democracies, once established, are very tough. If we define “established” as 30 years I think none have ever failed. So over the long term democracy always increases, never decreases.