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To: Ilaine who wrote (37316)	4/1/2004 6:51:49 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 793955

The institution is what matters, not the people who are elected. Institutions are no stronger than the political culture that produces them. All over the developing world you will find countries with carefully designed institutions that have been rendered dysfunctional by people who have a vested interest in making them that way. Americans take so much for granted that they don't even consider some of the most serious problems. We tend to assume that in a democracy there will automatically be two major political parties, ideologically differentiated along a left/right continuum. This is rarely the case in emerging democracies. The current Indonesian election has the country going mad, simply because the number of posts being contested and the exorbitant number of parties contesting each post has produced a ballot that looks like the centerfold of the Jakarta telephone directory. That gets you a winner with an uncertain mandate, and a lot of people who aren't even sure what they voted for. It's harder than we think, and it's not just a matter of designing the institutions right.

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