Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa | David Booth | Global development | guardian.co.uk

Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa | David Booth | Global development | guardian.co.uk: "Thanks in part to Iraq and Afghanistan, we are, decades later, backing off from this self-confident universalism. Warnings against, for example, staging elections when an inclusive elite bargain has not yet been established are now getting a hearing. In and around the World Bank, there is recognition of the dangers of a one size fits all approach to reforming institutions. We are getting accustomed to the idea that countries need to discover their own routes to progress, and that well-wishing outsiders should start by understanding country systems better"