Since 1994, Rwanda has developed a political system that is formally democratic, yet which curtails true political competition in a variety of ways.
Just as helpful for the country's stability and progress would be the next item on Mr. Medvedev's agenda: developing a political system that is "open, flexible and internally complex".
Driven by this mandate, conservatives in the slave states developed a political system unlike anything that existed elsewhere in America.
For the second group of countries illiberal democracy may be seen as a step in developing a political system, be it democracy or something else, and groping to find the best way to deal with fundamental rights of freedom bearing in mind the "constraints" of multiculturalism.
Because fewer domesticated animals limited their transportation options and because sleeping sickness among humans thinned population densities, people living in tsetse-heavy areas of Africa were less likely to develop a centralized political system, making economic development more difficult.
Despite repeated failed efforts to develop a stable political system, Somali leaders last week took steps to create a permanent and more effective government.
"Fear is our supreme enemy," Martin said, quoting from a speech at a similar provincial convention 25 years ago that failed to develop a new political system for Natal.
They did it in the self-declared republic of Somaliland, which – since breaking away from the rest of Somalia in 1991 – has built itself up from the rubble of war into the most democratic place in the Horn of Africa, developing a unique political system that combines modern democracy with traditional respect for elders.
