ABSTRACT
It is common for many developing countries to be beset by problems of corruption, lack of accountability, poor governance and limited political representation. Such countries seem to have only occasional and often poor engagement with notions of democracy, and a greater propensity to various degrees of failure of state institutions. To some extent, this perception is based on a history of failure of developing countries to consistently conform to a modernist western model of political processes, the value of which has been the subject of lively debate. To a considerable degree, too, many of these features are some of the dening characteristics of a developing country, particularly one that has not progressed in its overall political development.
