I think there’s a general trend that countries with strong parliaments are more democratic and more benevolent then countries with have one strong person at the top. It would surprise me if Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wouldn’t agree on that point (I read The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future with is another book by him).
There are also good reason why people consider the recent centalization of Chinese power on Xi as a sign of it getting less democratic.
I think there’s a general trend that countries with strong parliaments are more democratic and more benevolent then countries with have one strong person at the top. It would surprise me if Bruce Bueno de Mesquita wouldn’t agree on that point (I read The Predictioneer’s Game: Using the Logic of Brazen Self-Interest to See and Shape the Future with is another book by him).
There are also good reason why people consider the recent centalization of Chinese power on Xi as a sign of it getting less democratic.