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Re:Iran abolishes controversial morality police by pm90 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:53AM (#33854174)
Democratic forms of Government don’t just materialize out of thin air. They start off pretty messy with a mix of democratic and un democratic elements. Institutional capacity is then built and strengthened over time.

Iran was certainly on a more democratic path then.

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Re:Iran abolishes controversial morality police by itshossein on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:34AM (#33863763)
I doubt that. I mean, I see a very little difference. We even had a harsh anti-hijab dress code then. And we still have elections. Perhaps the oil industry made the real difference.

As Daron Acemolgu stated beautifully, in a country with an absolute economic power (a family, a corporation, a foreign country, etc) which controls the Army at the same time, there is no hope for a real change. Even a gradual one. It all starts from the moment when a king or a government starts to 'need' their people and give them some real power in return.

https://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/publications/economic-...

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