Democracy in the absence of individual liberty and constrained government simply doesn't work - it becomes corruption. While admittedly, few non-democratic pol

Democracy in the absence of individual liberty and constrained government simply doesn't work - it becomes corruption. While admittedly, few non-democratic polities pursue liberal values, the ones that occasionally did throughout history seemed to feature a similar quality of governance to modern liberal democracies. Their main (and quite significant) problem was instability over time, and that's what democratization mostly addresses.