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A hand dropping a folded ballot paper into a sealed ballot box

Political ScienceJune 28, 20266 min readEvergreen

You Cannot Install a Democracy

Western intervention has been justified for decades on the premise that removing a bad regime creates room for a good one. A study of seventy twentieth-century regime changes found targets ended up no more likely to reach consolidated democracy than comparable states left alone — and identified exactly which conditions decide it.

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Dense low-rise housing in Dharavi, Mumbai, with high-rise blocks on the skyline behind

Political ScienceNovember 16, 20256 min readEvergreen

Ideology Is the Software, Not the Machine

Every ideology presents itself as the thing holding society together. Across 475 elections in 62 countries, what actually predicts whether a government survives is material performance — largely regardless of its ideology. But the reverse claim, that delivering goods buys you loyalty, turns out to be false too.

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