This means that in Afghan elections, people who were culturally heavily affected by American ideas did most of the voting whereas at least 80% of the population did not vote and these who did not vote are overwhelmingly rural.
Cities in poor countries tend to follow more closely to whatever foreign power has the most influence in the country, such as the US in Afghanistan. This means rural people will leave voting to the clan elders, which is only weighed as a single vote, which means the cities will have disproportionate power over the country's decisions, and most people live in rural regions. Some countries (like Afghanistan) have clans that dominate society. They can be used as an umbrella for stealing funds from the treasury by claiming a certain amount of funds are going to organizing the elections but in reality it is stolen.Įven when it works "properly" it does not always work. They can be used to find out who supports the leader and not, which can lead to literal lists of people to kill in violent purges. They can serve as a place where violent groups can kill people easily waiting in line to vote. These elections are big reason why the nations stay poor elections are expensive and oftentimes violent. Then the elections are usually fake, heavily corrupt, and/or rigged. Eventually a rushed agreement is made for peace and the new government holds elections with the sole reason of fulfilling the "representative government" request from the UN so they can get recognition and therefore international aid and power.
After this civil wars start and they nearly always end in stalemates because it is ethnic conflict, meaning one group is popular somewhere and hated elsewhere and another is hated somewhere and popular elsewhere. Due to the minorities often being collectively the majority, they are easily able to remove the government, but can not unite because they disagree with each other just as much as they disagreed with the majority. They are upset because the countries have so many different cultures who are forced together and the majorities always outvote the minorities, so the minorities get little to nothing in the national government imagine if the Japan and Korea were one country, the Japanese would outvote the Koreans every time due to that fact japan has a larger population and the Korean votes would be wasted.
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Sub-saharan Africa has it worse They are large countries with super diverse populations oftentime the most populus group makes up less than 35% of the population! Most countries had one free election before it fell apart due to allegations of fraud, mostly from minorities who are upset about results. This problem is prevalent in the Middle East, also. Then people get mad due to high food prices, and civil war or a coup happens. Eventually, The guy in power tries to invade one of their neighbors to unite the Arabs or supports an attack on a NATO country out of revenge for colonialism or for insulting his regime and the UN gets mad and slams the country with sanctions. Their culture is not used to voting and so during an election, some guy coups nearly always coups, people are moderately upset, but they move on. North Africa's problem is simple to understand due to it being mostly one ethnoreligious group(Arabs) divided in multiple countries. All of them try democracy due to the fact that their colonial overlords were Western European democracies and now after the USSR fell, the UN almost forces elections on almost every new government by withholding recognition until a "representative government" is established. In Africa, the countries have their borders drawn up foreign powers. Virtually all countries in Africa are failed democracies. Ukraine, however has made some progress unlike Russia in rectifying this issue, but it is still not a democracy, so Russia and Ukraine are terrible examples of the failure of democracy, and are better examples of how democracy is failed to be established, and their conflict is more the cause of imperialism(from either Russia or the US, depending on your perspective) and irredentism(Russia wanting to gain back its lost status after the USSR fell), however. Well, assuming your comment is serious Russia and Ukraine are not democracies Russia is an oligarchy with incredibly rigged "elections", whereas Ukraine is a super corrupt anocracy where bribes decide the elections.
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