Dear George,<br /><br />I apologize for my questions on the same paper. You did a fine job with the last edit. I added one paragraph in red, but I didn't notice that you changed anything in it. Is it clear and good enough? Here it is again:&nbsp;<br /><br />I appreciate your assurance.&nbsp;<br /><br />All the best- Maya<br /><br />
<p>By framing the issue within this perspective, then there is no unsolved puzzle, but perhaps a normative question of ethics of what and how democracy ought to be promoted and implemented. We need to look at the phenomenon of clientelism as a culprit of producing inartificial democracies, and we need to test the outcomes of democracies that are built on cleintelism and whether such democracies are sustainable or fruitful to result in economic and welfare growth or would produce corrupt government. We need to understand whether democracy is considered legitimate only as a process or as an outcome. We need to ask ourselves whether we care about the procedural or the substantive meaning of democracy.&nbsp;</p>