{"id":183093,"date":"2025-10-19T18:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/democracies-undermined-by-institutional-fatigue-2"},"modified":"2025-10-19T18:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T17:56:43","slug":"democracies-undermined-by-institutional-fatigue-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/democracies-undermined-by-institutional-fatigue-2","title":{"rendered":"Democracies Undermined by Institutional Fatigue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Convener of The Alternative, Segun Showunmi, has argued that the democratic promise of freedom and accountability is \u201cincreasingly undermined\u201d by \u201cinstitutional fatigue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is just as he submitted that the liberal democratic model \u201cis struggling to deliver the developmental outcomes that once justified its global prestige.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Showunmi stated this on Saturday, in his article titled \u2019Can Authoritarianism Build Faster.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDemocracies today are louder but less effective. They produce elections, but not direction; expression, but not execution,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, authoritarian nations are developing faster than democracies, arguing that concentrated authority, when competently applied, delivers results with a speed and precision that liberal systems often fail to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>He examined what he called the \u201cefficiency paradox\u201d the ability of non-democratic systems to achieve large-scale development despite global preference for democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He questioned why centralised states such as China, Singapore, and South Korea during their developmental years could mobilise resources, plan long-term, and implement large projects effectively, while many democratic governments remained trapped in cycles of debate and delay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe question is not moral but empirical. Concentrated authority, when competent and strategically deployed, has proven capable of generating growth at a speed liberal democracies can rarely match,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that China\u2019s rapid economic transformation, which lifted over 800 million people out of poverty within four decades, demonstrates the potential of a coordinated governance model. He compared this with the gridlock and short-termism that often characterise democratic institutions.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the world must begin to assess governments not by ideology but by performance, by their ability to improve lives, reduce poverty, and expand opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Showunmi clarified that his position was not an endorsement of authoritarianism but a call for democracy to evolve into a more decisive, performance-oriented model.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are not rejections of democracy, but recalibrations of it. If democracies cannot deliver tangible prosperity, they risk ceding both moral and practical ground to systems they have long dismissed as inferior,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>He concluded that while democracy remains a noble aspiration, it must prove its worth in the modern age by combining freedom with efficiency and direction with delivery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Convener of The Alternative, Segun Showunmi, has argued that the democratic promise of freedom and accountability is \u201cincreasingly undermined\u201d by \u201cinstitutional fatigue.\u201d This is just as he submitted that the liberal democratic model \u201cis struggling to deliver the developmental outcomes that once justified its global prestige.\u201d Showunmi stated this on Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":183091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Democracies Undermined by Institutional Fatigue - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/democracies-undermined-by-institutional-fatigue-2\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democracies Undermined by Institutional Fatigue\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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