As usual, I'm sitting on the couch switching between reading the addictive Wheel of Time series, perusing Facebook/Pinterest, and reading blogs. Here's one of the more interesting things I've read today (Dad, I think this might pique your interest):
http://dartthrowingchimp.wordpress.com/2012/09/12/democracy-and-development-revisited-again/
This blogger (a very adept academic for his funny moniker "dart-throwing chimp") makes models and predictions about democracy around the world. If you're interested, poke around his other posts. I find it fascinating that so many of our ideas about democracy - how it evolves, what strengthens/weakens it, and how it benefits people - are turned sideways when viewed from a scientific standpoint. Maybe not upside-down, but definitely sideways.
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