There’s plenty of countries where democratic rule is good and stable, and it’s not too hard to predict those. Some obvious predictive variables are tradition of rule of law (which you get transitioning out of some dictatorship like Korean, but not some others like Soviet), low economic inequality, and stability of political system.
All happen to be false in case of South Africa. But these also tend to correlate with wellness and stability of any other political system—so democracy might still be the least bad system for South Africa, given such constraints.
There’s plenty of countries where democratic rule is good and stable, and it’s not too hard to predict those. Some obvious predictive variables are tradition of rule of law (which you get transitioning out of some dictatorship like Korean, but not some others like Soviet), low economic inequality, and stability of political system.
All happen to be false in case of South Africa. But these also tend to correlate with wellness and stability of any other political system—so democracy might still be the least bad system for South Africa, given such constraints.