Comparing the fate of Latin American and British settlement colonies, I was starting to wonder how alternate colonies of this sort would have fared if established by different countries. I'm talking about colonies where the colonial country is seen as the historic "mother"/"founding" country by most of the population, not just a foreign invader and occupier.
Do some countries have a tendency to "produce" dictatorships wherever they are planting new societies?
Does the location and geopolitical position play a much bigger role what the new countries will turn into - for example would Chile still have had a Pinochet if it had been a British colony?
Or is there no correlation at all - is the country of origin no sure indication of what the offspring will look like?
Most of all, what are your prediction for alternate colonizers:
What would have been the dictatorship/democracy ratio for a Dutch America? A French one? A German or Italian one? etc.
Of course it might be easier to say in cases where you can extrapolate from historic structures, like say South Africa for the Netherlands.
Do some countries have a tendency to "produce" dictatorships wherever they are planting new societies?
Does the location and geopolitical position play a much bigger role what the new countries will turn into - for example would Chile still have had a Pinochet if it had been a British colony?
Or is there no correlation at all - is the country of origin no sure indication of what the offspring will look like?
Most of all, what are your prediction for alternate colonizers:
What would have been the dictatorship/democracy ratio for a Dutch America? A French one? A German or Italian one? etc.
Of course it might be easier to say in cases where you can extrapolate from historic structures, like say South Africa for the Netherlands.