Perhaps more than development it is reasonable to expect democracies ...
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expect democracy to help make the world a better place. They believe ... prevailed, perhaps, yet this proved compatible with the maintenance of a social order ... thinking, we would identify it as a reasonable second-best approxima- tion, given ..... more conducive to development in some contexts than in others,
A dichotomy can be defined as the presence of two alternatives that are jointly exhaustive (only these two alternatives, and no more than these two, exist) and mutually exclusive (the existence of each alternative excludes the other). A false dichotomy arises when a dichotomy is believed to exist when in reality, it does not—there are either more than two alternatives or the alternatives are not mutually exclusive. The recent advocacy by some for the argument that Bangladesh needs development before democracy fits this textbook definition of a false dichotomy remarkably well.