> I think it much more convincing that social values determine the direction in which a country allows government to rule them. There's some truth to this, but

> I think it much more convincing that social values determine the direction in which a country allows government to rule them. There's some truth to this, but you can do event studies to show that economic conditions play a very large causal role too. e.g. the massive quantitative spike in Hitler's popularity 1 year into the depression (this is the main data point I want to bring up, because it's quantifiable by polling numbers), or the 1917 Russian Revolution which only was successful because of the dire conditions brought about due to WW1, or the CCP only getting into power because of Japanese occupation and degradation of the KMT.