Democracy in the modern sense (universal suffrage, very large polities) is too recent an experiment to have strong data on that — the vast majority of the democ

Democracy in the modern sense (universal suffrage, very large polities) is too recent an experiment to have strong data on that — the vast majority of the democratic experiment has been conducted under a US hegemony. I’m not sure the (also very limited) Ancient Greek example bears enough resemblance to the modern idea to be a useful comparison (I suggest also as a non-historian).