democracy

Basically, I'm trying to ask if it is possible for a world to develop industrially and technologically to modern standards without liberal democracy becoming a major force in the world? I know that "authoritarianism" is just as much a development of the modern world as liberal democracy was, and...

The good people at www.OneSixComics.com have created a graphic novel wherein the 1/6 Insurrection was successful in keeping Trump in office, although getting VP Mike Pence in the process....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_Chinese_National_Assembly_election Shortly after the Xinhai Revolution, mainland China had what was probably the most democratic election in its history, with multiple parties taking part in it, even if only a very small percentage of the population was...

Tl;dr: With an POD or a few between 600 AD and 1300 AD Establish English style parliamentary democracy in one major Eastern European power by 1700 via a similar gradual process. Looking back at the Middle Ages, the establishment of a nascent parliamentary democracy in Britain was an accident...

OTL Russia was authoritarian, poor, corruption, oligarch, invaded Ukraine. TTL White Army won Civil War White army from authoritarian to transition democracy from 1985-86 Social Democracy Leader Gorbachev. Lenin has killed by Fanny Kaplan, Leon Trotsky Capture and Executed by White Army So...

Throughout the 20th century, many countries have experienced dictatorships. Some started the century that way. Some had democracies that crumbled. While others had dictatorships forced by external, invading armies. The one realm of this world that has nearly consistently enjoyed civil...

Could democratic city states in ancient Greece (pre-philip of Macedon) have plausibly accepted women as citizens who could participate and vote? Just curious as to how/why it might happen. It doesn't have to be Athens, it could be any of the Greek city states of the time.

Following the amnesty law of August 1979, Leonel Brizola returned from exile the following month with the intention of recreating the Brazilian Labour Party (PTB) as it existed before the 1964 coup d'état. However, he got into a judicial dispute with Ivete Vargas (Getúlio Vargas' great-niece)...

Otl the cold war was about economics, capitalism vs communism. Sure, both parties argued they were democracies and the other was some tyrannical monster where people couldnt breathe without the supreme leadership saying so, but both found things like equal rights and certain personal freedoms...

What Achaemenid Persia transiotioned into a democracy with a constitution like Roman Republic and meritocratic bureaucracy voting rights to all Free males persian by descent of Persus(fars of today) as said by Otanes after Bardyia is overthrown and before darius is king just assume thing...

Do you think Japan could have switched its imperial government system to adopt a democratic one before American occupation of Japan in 1945? How do you picture the Asia-Pacific economical, political and social context given this situation?

For a brief time during the first round of the 2002 Brazilian presidential race, former governor of Ceará and former minister of finance Ciro Gomes either led the polls or was just barely behind Lula, the favourite candidate and OTL winner. However, Ciro's numbers collapsed and he eventually got...

Nine years before he ran for (and won) the presidency of Brasil, Fernando Henrique Cardoso (or just FHC) ran for mayor of São Paulo. However, although he led the polls from day one right up until election day, he was narrowly defeated by former president Jânio Quadros in a huge upset. What if...

This is the map of modern Cantonia except eastern side of former Eastern Guangdong region pre-1930s.

I always wondered how will Russia behave as a nation if Lenin instead of being a Marxist was a right winger a la Kennedy or wanted to make Russia a country like the USA. Apart from less massive deaths or famines what would be the consequences of a rightist Lenin, extra points if Stalin is priest.

No one believed that the German empire could rise after the Great War, having barely managed to hold in the West, and basically failing to hold anything east other than Poland. Their ally, Austria-Hungary, risked to collapse from ethnic conflicts, and had to cede vast territories to Serbia and...

The Arab spring ravaged the Arab world during the early 2010s, which of the countries involved were more likely to become more democratic and which countries had a real possibility of descending into theocratic rules? The aim of this thread should be to have the least amount of Baathist...

I've seen a lot of threads on the survival of Imperial Brazil or even a better Old Republic, but I haven't seen many that actually go into more depth about what this alt-Brazil would actually look like. For simplicity's sake (and my own personal preference) I'm just going to say the the Empire...

In the summer of 1918, more than a year after the abolition of the Russian monarchy, Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family along with their servants were massacred by a Bolshevik firing squad. In the end, the death of Nicholas II ended an era of Russian history that began with Peter the...

The French Revolution (1789-1799) marked the downfall of the Bourbon monarchy in France with the execution of King Louie XVI and Marie Antoinette. Then, there was the rise of liberal democracies/republics, the spread of revolutionary ideals, and Napoleon Bonaparte, one of the greatest generals...