Linz and Stepan list and describe a set of five elements that determine a consolidated democracy. Civil society, political society, rule of law, usable state of bureaucracy, and an institution of economic society all interact in complex ways to bring about democratic consolidation in countries. This paper focuses and emphasizes the interactions between the ^development of a free and lively civil society . . . [and] an institutionalized economic society . . . [which] must be present, or be crafted, in …
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…also had trouble getting on the ballots in the 1993 election. The votes totaled to a meager 565, a .004 percent of the country^s votes. It is a good sign to see that despite unemployment levels of about 15 percent and even reaching as far as 20 percent in some regions, that the Polish are not resorting to these ridiculous organizations. The Poles are reacting to their new democracy with a maturity and knowledge that extremism is going nowhere