Paula Sabloff writes further:<\/p>\n Since writing this chapter, I have had two thoughts about the relationship between democracy and risk. First, I wonder if some Mongolians were optimistic because they expected the country\u2019s rich mineral deposits would soon boost the Mongolia\u2019s GDP and all citizens would benefit. And second, the more I read, the more I believe that risk is another human universal\u2013like a sense of fairness and resistance to dominance. If all humans have the innate ability to project into the future (which they do), then we all think about the future, and future thinking is one mode of thought that permeates our ideas of governance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democracy and Risk: Mongolians’ Perspective Paula Sabloff in J. Dierkes, ed.\u00a0Change in Democratic Mongolia \u2013 Social Relations, Health, Mobile Pastoralism, and Mining\u00a0Leiden: Brill. \u201cDemocracy and Risk\u201d uses statistical analysis to suggest correlation between Mongolians\u2019 evaluation of democracy and their concerns … Continue reading ![\"Brill:](\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/files\/2012\/10\/Vertical-Banner-Change-in-Demo-MGL.jpg\")
<\/a>\u201cDemocracy and Risk\u201d uses statistical analysis to suggest correlation between Mongolians\u2019 evaluation of democracy and their concerns about the future. Those who say that democracy is good for Mongolia or that Mongolia will be able to sustain democracy also say that they expect their country and their family to survive or thrive in the new capitalist system. Those who state that democracy has bad traits or that it will not work in Mongolia are frequently pessimistic about the country\u2019s economic future. Based on a subset of 1,283 open-ended interviews conducted among voting-age citizens in 1998 and 2003, this analysis contradicts other social scientists\u2019 and policy-makers\u2019 idea that democracy can only survive in a nation that has already reached a certain level of economic development. Maintaining democracy seems to be linked more with education level than economic level. And socialism left Mongolia with a very high literacy rate (ca. 98 percent).<\/p>\n