In addition, there is the question of whether or not to treat democracy and non-democracy as a dichotomous or continuous variable with regard to the degree' of democracy in a country. ... It defies all logic against human behaviour that one will be told what to do, leading a bleak life with no hope, especially if you are an ambitious or adventurous person. ... This made it easier for the non-communist parties in post-communist Poland to have an "organizational basis for it-(Mair 1996,2). ... It was these factors that gave Poland an immediate head start in the troubled game and which ma...

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Virtu Like most Western philosophers, Niccolo Machiavelli's ideas were heavily influenced by the early Greek philosophers. Most notable among the Greek philosophers who inspired Machiavelli was Plato. In particular, Machiavelli took interest in Plato's concept of just rulers who ruled by moral virtue. Machiavelli argued against this Platonic philosophy. He believed in "virtu", whatever was best for the State was virtu. ...

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