Please explain what conditions cause new democracies to survive and thrive or to fail ?

Answer 1

Read, read, read ... and take good notes.

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/ihsg/publications/pdf/No-7-1.PDF

http://www.rattlesnake.com/notions/order-law-justice-democracy.html

http://southafrica.usembassy.gov/civil-society.html

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=why+new+democracies+thrive+or+fail&hl=en&btnG=Search&as_sdt=1%2C44&as_sdtp=on