Alex and I were discussing something only tangentially related recently when I realised that the UK is the only country I can think of which has kind of evolved a democracy in a fairly undramatic and very gradual fashion. All the other countries about who's governmental history I know have either started as more or less democracies (e.g. America), had revolutions (e.g. France) or been pushed into it by other powers (e.g. India). I'm sure there must be others though - some of the Nordic states perhaps? Enlighten me, friends list.
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Date: February 3rd, 2005 03:15 pm (UTC)From:Also, if it's all the same to you, America did experience a revolution...ahem. ;-) 'Course, in strange irony, where we had to experience the tyranny of your King George, now you get to experience the tyranny of ours. ;-)
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If you mean representational government with an unchanged record through time - I think Iceland would probably beat all the others.