The Achilles’ Heel of Democracy and the Strength of Autocracy

Abstract

The Western world has passed a difficult time to reach today's level of socio-economic and political development. However, their experience does not tell that at the early stages of their development they started from democracy. For developing countries, it may be from devotion to “generously help” developing countries or deliberately impede development, they advocate democracy although everything must be context sensitive. One political system cannot be fit for all countries at all times. What is important is to set a universal goal than
universal means. All countries at some point in time converge on values of democracy and hu man rights. But given differences in resources, institutions, history, and external influence, the way they develop, and exercisedemocracy cannot be the same. The conditions in which developing countries are determine what political regime to be applied. Both Democracy and Autocracy have their merits and demerits. We should take what is best for developing countries from these regimes. They are not oil and water that we can mix to produce the best
political system. The major objective of this article is to indicate the proper balance between democracy and autocracy suitable for developing countries that are struggling to achieve development in the middle of fierce domestic and global challenges. To this end, qualitative method is employed to collect and analyze secondary data. Accordingly, the study has come up with a finding that at the early stage of development it is inevitable for developing countries to adopt a democratic authoritarian regime.