Democracy stagnant?

According to Fareed Zakaria, the basic problem afflicting fledgling democracies and the overall growth of democracy worldwide is “an absence of governance.”  This is absurd, unless he believes the phrase “absence of governance” actually means “armed opponents of democracy.”

The failure of democracy to spread wildly over the last ten years is not because of democracy’s many weaknesses and liabilities. Democracy has–more often than not–been a target of overt, violent resistance levied by its traditional foes.