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A review by patcaetano98
Wars, Guns and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places by Paul Collier
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
4.5
“I recalled my friend Ngozi Nkonjo-Iweala telling me when she became Nigeria's finance minister that although the government was at the start of a four-year term, she had been given only three years for reform. "The last year will be politics," the president had explained to her, and, as I have just described, so it had proved.”
“Taken together, the results on elections and democratization are consistent: if democracy means little more than elections, it is damaging to the reform process.”
“The now-successful states were built through a painfully slow and circuitous process of formation that turned them into nations with which their citizens identified. This enabled them to undertake the collective action that is vital for the provision of public goods.”
“Taken together, the results on elections and democratization are consistent: if democracy means little more than elections, it is damaging to the reform process.”
“The now-successful states were built through a painfully slow and circuitous process of formation that turned them into nations with which their citizens identified. This enabled them to undertake the collective action that is vital for the provision of public goods.”