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In general dictators have not done better at [economic] policies than democrats—far from it. Most dictators have ravaged their countries for personal gain. Scholars have asked whether democracy helps or hurts the economic growth of poor countries and despite many surveys, have come to no conclusive answer.

— Adam Przeworski Fareed Zakaria (2007)

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Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections.

The simple answer to the question with which we began is that we do not know whether democracy fosters or hinders economic growth.

Democracy can be an equilibrium: a system of "self-government" in which the distinction between the rulers and the ruled disappears.

Adam Przeworski (1991)

Is “democracy,” as we understand the term today, an implementation of “self-government,” as this ideal was formulated when representative institutions were first established? The evidence is mixed.

Democracy and the Limits of Self-Government (2010)

Social democrats will not lead European societies into socialism. Even if workers would prefer to live under socialism, the process of transition must lead to a crisis before socialism could be organized.

Capitalism and social democracy (1985)

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