<P> Professor Joshua Muravchik argued U.S. occupation was critical for Axis power democratization after World War II, but America's failure to encourage democracy in the third world "prove...that U.S. military occupation is not a sufficient condition to make a country democratic ." The success of democracy in former Axis countries such as Italy were seen as a result of high national per - capita income, although U.S. protection was seen as a key to stabilization and important for encouraging the transition to democracy . Steven Krasner agreed that there was a link between wealth and democracy; when per - capita incomes of $6,000 were achieved in a democracy, there was little chance of that country ever reverting to an autocracy, according to an analysis of his research in the Los Angeles Times . </P> <P> Tures examined 228 cases of American intervention from 1973 to 2005, using Freedom House data . A plurality of interventions, 96, caused no change in the country's democracy . In 69 instances, the country became less democratic after the intervention . In the remaining 63 cases, a country became more democratic . However this does not take into account the direction the country would have gone with no U.S. intervention . </P> <P> Hermann and Kegley found that American military interventions designed to protect or promote democracy increased freedom in those countries . Peceny argued that the democracies created after military intervention are still closer to an autocracy than a democracy, quoting Przeworski "while some democracies are more democratic than others, unless offices are contested, no regime should be considered democratic ." Therefore, Peceny concludes, it is difficult to know from the Hermann and Kegley study whether U.S. intervention has only produced less repressive autocratic governments or genuine democracies . </P> <P> Peceny stated that the United States attempted to export democracy in 33 of its 93 20th - century military interventions . Peceny argued that proliberal policies after military intervention had a positive impact on democracy . </P>

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