Can you name some nation-states that have attempted to be democratic but failed?

Question

dont include iraq

Answer 1

the United States of America

not a true democracy

an example of this: Gore won the 2000 election democratically (he got more votes) but was not made president

Answer 2

This is a complex question, because it all depends what you mean by 'democracy' (are Islamic democracies like Iran really democratic?) and how high you set the bar for democratic praxis as opposed to theory (India, Mexico, Russia, and - yes - the United States might not necessarily get top marks on this one). Democracy means different things to different people, and anyone making an argument can usually twist the definition to include and exclude whoever they choose. Lots of democratic regimes have been overthrown by non-democratic ones (sometimes with the support of Western governments), many theoretically democratic nations have had their systems of government perverted by non-democratic elements domestically or from the outside (Russia and the Ukraine are examples of this). On the whole, it is my view that democracy is unlikely to be successful in any country that does not have a pre-existing, established democratic culture and developed civil society. I cannot think of any state where democracy has been suddenly and successfully imposed on a society with no prior experience of it. This is especially the case when (as in Iraq), the kind of democracy being imposed is a fundamentally foreign one. But Iraq under American occupation is a very unusual and unique experiment in many ways.

Answer 3

Well, fortunately the United States of America never attempted to become a democracy. The founding fathers knew, and said, that democracy is the most dangerous kind of government to have and is no more than mob rule. Thus we have a Democratic Republic.

Answer 4

Democracy seems to take roots in a country. I can't think of any butt in the year 1900 there where two and now there are about 38. I think in 75 years that 90% of the nations will be democracies as dictators and communism don't seem to work. Even the Chinese will have some form of democracy.

Answer 5

South Vietnam was a democracy but was taken over by the north. Italy and Germany of course, but they became democratic again. Many South American countries go in and out of dictatorships. The French Republic led to Emperor Napoleon, but today France is democratic.

Answer 6

Don't get your hopes up yet. Democracy might still flourish there when and if the Democrats and media stop propping up the enemy.

China tried but the existing government crushed them.

People tend to like being self determining. Nazi Germany is an example though. Hitler got elected and then did away with democracy once having won.

Not quite the same thing as "failing". It was taken over by military coo

Answer 7

OK..... Won't include Iraq, I will, then, include, the United States of America.

Also. Basically many of the modern communist states of the 20th century were modern before military coups.

Germany is another example.

Answer 8

Pakistan - was briefly a democracy but Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Bush's ally in the terror war, threw a coup and seized control around 1998.

Answer 9

El Salvador--just off the top of my head.
The USA is NOT a democracy--it's a representative republic.

Answer 10

Not to be a copy cat but specks right.