Special Episode: Language in Brains and Machines
The Science of Everything Podcast
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The Importance of Democracy in Low-Income Countries
It just doesn't seem that low-income countries are very good at maintaining democratic systems. It seems to be what will happen is that a country will become developed and then it will become democratic so this happened in Taiwan, south korea would be two clear examples where they achieved relative level of prosperity and then democratized. We see democratic backsliding countries like Hungary and Turkey recently for example but to full on authoritarian regimes you really just have really have to look at the petroleum states of the the middle east like Saudi Arabia for example.
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