It’s a way of understanding the diversity of political forms around the world, and also where they came from. Singapore doesn’t have elections-or has kind of fake elections-but it has a pretty strong rule of law. What they don’t have is anything like a real rule of law that constrains their state. They’re not so free and fair but sometimes there’s a surprise. So Iran has kind of democratic elections-they just had one. Historically, they appeared at different times. In them, I laid out the tripartite framework-about needing to understand that you’ve got these three components: the state (and hopefully a modern state), the rule of law, and democratic accountability, and that they are all separate. I wrote two very long books, The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay. Foreign Policy & International Relations.
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