Fully becoming acculturated to democracy takes some time. Look at all the hell and anarchy that France went through in the 17th and 18th centuries. Old ideas and paradigms are hard to shift into a higher gear. At least with higher literacy rates, superb communications and rapid dissemination of knowledge being the norm every where now, that acculturation process will be exponentially faster for emerging democratic societies, but still a bloody and haphazard process to go through.