The Paradox of Democracy’s Success: Behavioral Science Helps Explain Why We Miss Autocratic Red Flags

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 paved the way for the democratization of many eastern European countries and triumphantly ushered in the era of global liberal democracy that some scholars celebrated as “the end of history”. The idea was that human political history followed a steady path and that Western liberal democracy was the end point of the evolution of human government. Unfortunately, events unfolded a little differently.

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