Opinion: It can be easy to lapse into the view that the rise of liberal democracy over the past two centuries was an inevitable and natural part of humanity\u2019s forward march \u2014 a one-way journey to a better way of doing things. But this is not the case,’ the FT’s chief data reposter, John Burn-Murdoch writes.\u2060
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\nIn a striking pattern most recently highlighted by US political economist Matthew Burgess, the advance of liberal democracy through the developed world has tended to track economic growth. This is not to rehash the view popularised by modernisation theory that growth automatically produces liberal democracies \u2014 look at China and the Gulf \u2014 but recent events suggest it may be necessary to sustain them.\u2060<\/p>\n
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