What i don't understand here is link with democracy. Democracy is a cultural phenomenon. It exists in democratic nations - where the very core of beliefs of the

What i don't understand here is link with democracy. Democracy is a cultural phenomenon. It exists in democratic nations - where the very core of beliefs of the people supports it. It has nothing to do with economic development, as it seems. Some people want to be free, some actively reject it, just because all nations are different, simply because upsides and downsides of democracy are of different value for people of different cultures. Democracy does not make a nation rich, just as getting rich does not make a nation democratic. If there is a slight correlation between GDP and democracy it is because the same beliefs of the people that enable democracy (largely starting with protestant ethic) are also beneficial for economic development. But it does not mean any causation between GDP and democracy so no way to influence one by changing the other.