@inbook{a8d41974edc249c69f57badb4908b491,
title = "Autochthonous Routes to Democracy: Assessing the Brics Polities",
abstract = "In reviewing the extent to which the democracies among the BRICS are complementary of the West or asserting their own forms of governance, this chapter assesses the role played by the West in creating their domestic political systems. To varying degrees, it argues, the BRICS countries have proven impervious to the influence of the West in their political systems. Those which are widely regarded as democratic (Brazil, India and South Africa) obtained and retained their democratic dispensations despite and not because of the West. In Brazil, the United States backed a coup against a democratically elected government in 1964; in South Africa, the United States showed a lacklustre stance towards the democratisation movement, and any claims of India{\textquoteright}s being a democracy due to the British are inter alia readily dismissed by the fact of Pakistan and Bangladesh, the other components of British India, having had repeated military coups, while the Republic of India has not.",
keywords = "BRICS, Colonialism, Democracy, Governance, Liberal democracy",
author = "Bhaso Ndzendze",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-62765-2_2",
language = "English",
series = "International Political Economy Series",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "35--63",
booktitle = "International Political Economy Series",
}