...and the essence of democratic behavior is doing the latter because it is impossible to do the former. Disillusionment and the lowered expectations it produces...of tyranny, but not necessarily to anything else. A striking feature of the first fifteen years of the third wave was the virtual absence of major antidemocratic...

...a system, and the ability of particular elected governments to deal with the problems facing them: 'Disillusionment and the lowered expectations it produces...of tyranny, but not necessarily to anything else'. (263) Decreased political participation arising from resignation, cynicism, withdrawal and declining...

....democracy is everywhere under construction; and yet, it is everywhere in doubt. —Richard Sklar, 1986 Democracies become consolidated when people learn...of tyranny, but not necessarily to anything else. —Samuel P. Huntington, 1993 As the decade of the 1980s ended the world was in the midst of what many...

...fail and that hence institutionalised ways have to exist for changing them'. In Huntington's view: 'Disillusionment and the lowered expectations it produces...of tyranny, but not necessarily to anything else.' " In South Africa the more substantive view of participatory democracy that had been widespread in...

...that governments will fail and that hence institutionalised ways have to exist for changing them. ... Democracies become consolidated when people learn...necessarily to anything else' (Huntington, 1991, p. 263). In other words, when people persist in supporting a democratic system even though the particular...

...democracy depends on "disillusionment and lower expectations" on the part of the general population: Democracies become consolidated when people learn...problem of tyranny but not necessarily to anything else" . However. Huntington himself recognises the need for new democracies to be effective in addressing...

...democratic consolidation. Perhaps the largest obstacle, writes Samuel Huntington, is the recognition that "democracy is a solution to the problem of tyranny, but not necessarily to anything else." 1 Poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, inadequate economic development, chronic inflation with substantial...

...democratic consolidation. Perhaps the largest obstacle, writes Samuel Huntington, is the recognition that "democracy is a solution to the problem of tyranny, but not necessarily to anything else."1 Poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, inadequate economic development, chronic inflation with...