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Is democracy promotion in developing countries a feasible idea?

  • UPSC 2019
  • 15 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Democracy promotion is the effort of external actors, from states and regional bodies to the UN and private foundations, to build or consolidate democratic institutions elsewhere through aid, conditionality, diplomacy and, at the extreme, force. Its feasibility turns less on a society's "readiness" than on the means chosen: democracy can be supported from outside, but…

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