Authors: Ronald Inglehart, and Christian Welzel
March/April 2009
Foreign Affairs
Democratic institutions cannot be set up easily; they are likely to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist. But economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction and make democracy increasingly likely.
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