democracy

Either by butterflying the Islamic part of the revolution or by having the theocracy collapse, how could Iran have become a liberal democracy after deposing the Shah?

Hey! I really want to see everyone else's thoughts on how Russia could become a democratic great power by 1930. Perhaps it could have an isolationist policy while it puts itself back together and reforming itself. Initially, we can start with Constantine, less reactionary, becoming Czar instead...

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Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing...

Niek Koning writes that In the late 1850s, many farmers joined the new Republican party, which promised free soil and the exclusion of slavery from the new terriories. After the victory of the Union, however, the new party revealed itself as a tool of northeastern business interests, imposing...

Was the effort to bring democracy to Russia in the 1990s doomed to fail? Could it have possibly succeeded? (POD no earlier than 1985/Gorbachev era).

Let's say that the japanese expansion stops either after the first sino japanese war or the russo japanese war. By 2020 Japan is a modernized version of the Meiji era government, the technology is there, the government is more authoritarian and conservative than OTL and the zaibatsu system (that...

Now as we all know the Venetian Republic once ruled over a not insignificant empire in the Aegean and Adriatic seas, as well as controlling a vast mercantile sphere of influence before being pushed out by the Ottomans and entering a steady decline until 1797, when Napoleon occupied it without a...

What if question since it did not happen in real life. What would have to take place for Democracy to survive in Russia 1992 to present? Has to be after the collapse of the USSR in 1991. Any ideas?

Yeltsin firing upon the Duma (1993) was considered a critical error that may have ruined democracy in Russia. Could Russian Democracy have still survived had he not done that? (and a real democracy, not the illusion of choice post-2004)? Would Vladimir Putin have risen to power in that timeline...

In OTL We Know that democratisation only came due to Spanish King tricking him, Now i know this is unrealistic, but its not outright sealion, so what if Franco decides to negotiate with Democrats and democratize, realizing that his Regime wont survive his death and so this way he atleast has...

I've been thinking how republicanism and democratic ideals have burned brightly for millennia, and how of course many of us would die to keep that flame from being extinguished. However, what if the dictatorial and tyrannical rule of kings had restarted, reversing the glorious Roman Revolution...

OOC: =dbwi']This is what a DBWI is, we won't discuss it in the thread. IC: IOTL, in the early 2010s, a series of protest movements across the Arab world led to various dictatorships, once saw as stable and secure in their power, fall. Bahrain, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Algeria, Yemen, and...

To make the objective of the challenge clear let's consider developed to mean an HDI of >0.800 and a GDP per capita of $12,000 or higher. A major conflict such as WW1 is still allowed, but by the modern day there should be little or no major conflicts or civil wars occurring around the globe. By...

This is a TL I've been working on, not sure how plausible it is, or if it will be a coherent storyline, or just a one-shot peppered with snippets of daily life. In this TL, the Soviet Union didn't collapse, and the 1989 Revolutions of Eastern Europe were much more radical and violent, not just...

In general today, most democracies in in the Americas use a presidential system, while most European countries use a parliamentary system. There are some notable exceptions, but that is the general trend. What could be changed in history that would reverse this, causing most American countries...

Recently, the passing of the King of France has restarted talks by some within the country to move towards the idea of France becoming a Republic and ditching the monarchy, which seems to have been gaining steam slowly over the last two decades due to scandals within the Royal Family and some of...

If the senatorial people that Mark Antony and Octavian were fighting managed to defeat them and restore the republic fully. Perhaps they pass some reforms that strengthen the Republic and make it less susceptible to civil war and dictators?

Would these two empires disintegrate sooner or later anyway or could they manage too last? What would be the internal political developments in the three main central powers? In OTL, Germany saw a period of democracy followed by the world´s worst regime so far, before it gradually developed in a...

Your challenge, should you choose to accept, is to make the Soviet Union more like the (several) SSRs in Führerreich: Legacy of the Great War and less like the totalitarian nightmare state it was in OTL. Maybe make, well, an alliance of Soviet Socialist Republics instead of a single nation while...