Moreover, so-called “authoritarianism” has a proven track record for development.
Be careful with that around political scientists. I get the impression that some of them define democracy as everything that is good in the world. If you find something else good, they’ll just redefine democracy to include it.
I’ve heard of lots of academic research into what is driving economic growth in places like China. They don’t tend to just label whatever they’ve found as “democracy.”
This is why I said some. I’m aware that not all or even most political scientists do this. However, my impression is that there are some, and I’ve had my impressions confirmed talking with people more knowledgeable of the field than I.
(Also, looking into the factors driving growth in China is somewhere in the fuzzy gray area between economics and political science. Even if I were saying that most political scientists committed this error, I could easily attribute your counterexample to the influence to economics. But that’s not what I’m saying. But it still seems plausible that economists had an influence there.)
Be careful with that around political scientists. I get the impression that some of them define democracy as everything that is good in the world. If you find something else good, they’ll just redefine democracy to include it.
Either my model is wrong, or this story is false.
I’ve heard of lots of academic research into what is driving economic growth in places like China. They don’t tend to just label whatever they’ve found as “democracy.”
This is why I said some. I’m aware that not all or even most political scientists do this. However, my impression is that there are some, and I’ve had my impressions confirmed talking with people more knowledgeable of the field than I.
(Also, looking into the factors driving growth in China is somewhere in the fuzzy gray area between economics and political science. Even if I were saying that most political scientists committed this error, I could easily attribute your counterexample to the influence to economics. But that’s not what I’m saying. But it still seems plausible that economists had an influence there.)