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A critique of Sheikh Abdullah's autobiography Atish-e-Chinar and its treatment of the Ahrar leader Shorish Kashmiri with some personal reflections Ved Bhasin. From our archives.
Sheikh Abdullah's Atish-e-Chinar and Shorish Kashmiri https://t.co/Oj6BekNz18
Francis Fukuyama recently shared a compelling piece titled “The Myth of Authoritarian Efficiency” by political scientists Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning (Aarhus University / V-Dem project).
The article dismantles the popular notion that authoritarian regimes—particularly China—are simply better at “getting things done.” Drawing on historical data and comparative evidence, the authors argue that democracies consistently outperform autocracies over the long term across critical domains:
��� Military effectiveness: Democracies have won more than 80% of wars since 1815. Greater legitimacy enables citizens to make greater sacrifices, and democratic alliances prove more durable.
• Economic performance: While autocracies can drive catch-up growth to middle-income levels, they struggle to transition to innovation-driven, knowledge economies that require rule of law, intellectual property protection, and open debate. High-quality democracies show a modest but robust long-run growth advantage.
• Avoiding catastrophe: Autocracies periodically produce large-scale man-made disasters (Mao’s Great Leap Forward, Soviet collectivization). Institutional checks and public scrutiny in democracies make comparable failures rare.
• Crisis management & environment: Transparency, independent science, and accountability lead to better outcomes on pandemics, climate policy, and environmental indicators. China’s zero-COVID flip-flop and overstated economic statistics illustrate the risks of centralized, unaccountable decision-making.
The authors acknowledge democracies can be slow and messy, but emphasize that self-correction mechanisms ultimately make them more resilient and effective than systems that concentrate power without feedback loops.
Francis Fukuyama, author of the landmark book The End of History and the Last Man, continues to spark important conversations about the enduring strengths of liberal democracy in an era of renewed authoritarian confidence.
Full article (highly recommended):
https://t.co/rdLYptPLnY
What’s your take—do you see evidence of this “myth” playing out in emerging markets or great-power competition today?
#Democracy #Geopolitics #China #EmergingMarkets #InternationalRelations #PoliticalEconomy
The Concept of Democratic Resilience
The notion of resilience has become a common one in current discussions of democracy - and this article by @merkel_wolfgang in @democ_journal offers a useful analysis of the concept.
Open Access: https://t.co/AgXapkCZIR
Hindu-Muslim violence is changing: till recently riots were instrumentalised to polarise the voters & help BJP win elections; today BJP is in office: pogroms, lynchings, bulldozers are the order of the day. A great special issue of CSA explains why and how https://t.co/ZLoBgUb5y4
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Research Design for Political Science PhD Students
PS 522 Research Design(pdf)
Spring 2026
Jake Bowers
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read this one today. places south africa as the key lab for biometrics vis-a-vis its gatekeeper state w racially inscribed limits on the usual 'will to know' of (documentary)colonial bureaucracy+its place as model for biometric welfare states in postcolonial sa, brazil, india,etc
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