The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution by Steven A. Peterson, Albert Somit

The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution

Steven A. Peterson, Albert Somit

176 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

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In this book, Somit and Peterson argue that humans are social primates with an innate tendency for hierarchical and authoritarian social and political structures, and that democracy requires very special "enabling conditions" before it can be supp...

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