Elections in the absence of constitutional and cultural constraints can produce violence, as in Bosnia or the Palestinian Authority. And illiberal democracies have fought each other, as Ecuador and Peru did in the 1990’s.
尽管选举重要，但自由民主并不仅仅是“选举民主”。脱离了宪法和文化制约的选举可能造成暴力，就像波斯尼亚和巴勒斯坦权力机构。而非自由的民主政体则会相互攻击，如1990年代的厄瓜多尔和秘鲁。