Dictatorship outperforms democracy in growth and economic develpment

One of the best ways to measure the impact of the government system a state implements, is comparing it vs similar states who took different choices. One of this comparisons can be made between is between India and China, both countries are comparable in the time they have been a state, since India gained its independence in 1947 [[http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2009/0813/front_page/003.html]] and the People's Republic of China was proclaimed in 1949 [[http://china.org.cn/english/features/Brief/192265.htm]], and also in that they are populous, by 1951 India had a population of 361,090,000 [[http://www.mapsofindia.com/india-demographics.html]] and China had a population of 563,000,000 [[http://www.npfpc.gov.cn/en/about/detail.aspx?articleid=090505113410937991]] and by 2007 India had a population of 1,169,016,000[[http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statistics.html]] and China had a population of 1,328,630,000. Both have experienced a lot of growth and are highly competitive in today's global economy. The main difference is that India took the democratic route[[http://sundaytimes.lk/070812/International/i512.html]] and China "established a one party dictatorship of the CCP to replace the one party dictatorship of the KMT"[[http://books.google.co.ve/books?ei=aiaFSoz5Dp2vtgekt8GuCg&ct=result&hl=en&id=CN-DMxl_XtEC&dq=china+%22one+party%22+1949+dictatorship&ots=WQ1JDQl2Tf&q=%22one+party%22+dictatorship#v=snippet&q=%22one%20party%22%20dictatorship&f=false]]. But "over the last thirty years, the Chinese state has successfully created physical infrastructure and delivered essential services" whilst the on other side "the Indian state despite rapid economic growth has deteriorated over time. Whether it is providing basic law and order, or ensuring sanctity of contract, or delivering public services, the stench of decline is hard to ignore." [[http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1585]] “The core of the matter is that radical reforms in China have paved the way for economic development and a number of non-economic changes which have benefited the population and provided a decent level of living for the large majority. This could not have been done without strong leadership bent on pushing such policies, perhaps even to the point of employing coercion against opponents”. [[http://books.google.com/books?id=QElPOh_hEKUC&pg=PA234&dq=requisite&ei=yuWESqjWE43AygSz6tS0Dg#v=snippet&q=versus%20authoritarianism&f=false]] The result has been that the growth in India has relied more on the private sector as state capacity deteriorates, while China has a much better state infrastructure, but an unripe private sector. The thing is that creating markets is about setting a reasonable framework and letting go, but state capacity involves the creation of public institutions, and its respectives mechanisms for accountability, conflict management, etc, as a time will come when the private sector will no longer be able to compensate the lack of an efficient state when it comes to core state functions, for example. From this derives that the odds are still favor the prospect that China, rather than India will sustain its current growth rate.[[http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/1585]] The Chinese case allows to analyze another interesting comparison: Russia and China. "The People's Republic of China and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics both faced lethal crises as they attempted to reform their communist systems" [[http://books.google.com/books?id=jTV25IJ4VQAC&pg=PA103&dq=perestroika+chinese+reform&as_brr=3&ei=HQOFSpb9F4XgywTL0NyHDg#v=onepage&q=perestroika%20chinese%20reform&f=false]]. Their situations were similar up until the Perestroika times, when they engaged on parallel but different initiatives to break from classical Communism. The Soviet Union engaged in political liberalization, with small changes occurring in the economic side. China went on with large and increasing economic liberties, but established no political rights or liberties. During the 90's, China did much better than Russia. We could argue that, since Russia was moving toward democratic institutions, Gorbachev couldn't take the necessary steps toward economic liberalization, because as a logical part of the democratic political process he couldn't break directly with the dinosaurs in the communist party, so in the end Russia didn't chose a path and stagnated. On the contrary, China could engage in a committed path toward economic liberty because it's governing group did not need to consult others. [[www.acg.ru/english/news2.phtml?m=2866]] Thus China provides a unique opportunity to contrast the appropriateness of democratization as a path to development, as China twice chose dictatorship in a crossroads, and twice out-performed its similar neighbors. We can show in this argument that, being developing nations, China did much better than India, by staying as a one party dictatorship, rather than establishing a multi-party democracy; and then that, as a centrally planned economy with a one-party dictatorship in crisis, China was better off than the (now extinct) Soviet Union, and its successor states by transitioning into a free market one party dictatorship, rather than transitioning into a planned economy democracy.