Pei, based on study of a database on worldwide democracies called Polity, agreed with Mesquita and Downs that U.S. intervention efforts usually don't produce real democracies, and that most cases result in greater authoritarianism after ten years.
贝聿铭基于对一个名为“政体”的全球民主数据库的研究支持了梅斯基塔和唐斯的观点，即美国的干预努力通常不会产生真正的民主，而且大多数情况下十年后会导致更大的威权主义。