Ten Challenges of Democratic Consolidation Democratic consolidation confronts a number of characteristic challenges in new and insecure democracies. What is striking about these challenges varies across countries (and over time), however, and it would be an overstatement to characterize the complete resolution of any one of them as 'necessary' for democratic consolidation. Beyond establishing and routinizing broad commitment to the rules of the democratic game, there are probably no strictly necessary conditions for democratic consolidation, …showed first 75 words of 4586 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4586 total…America are renowned for the large number of coups and civil wars they experience, placing Kenya and Argentina in a difficult spot. Both countries face a number of the same problems, and where one country is lacking in a certain category, the other might in another. Neither country has a very strong case for consolidation in the long term and it will greatly depend on the political climate of their regions to ensure their survival.