False promises: The authoritarian development models of China and Russia
By
Joseph Lemoine, Dan Negrea, Patrick Quirk, Lauren Van Metre
Are authoritarian regimes more successful than free countries in offering prosperity to their people? The answer is decidedly no, yet China and Russia advertise the “benefits” and “promise” of their authoritarian development model. This paper showcases why and how the authoritarian development model is inferior to that of free societies.