Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy /
This book is the first to use modern social science methodology systematically to explain why some countries are democracies while others are not. Why does democracy sometimes persist and consolidate while other times it collapses? The treatment shows that whether or not a society becomes democratic...
| Những tác giả chính: | , |
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh |
| Được phát hành: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=148164 |
Mục lục:
- Questions and answers
- Paths of political development
- Our argument
- What do we know about democracy?
- Modeling politics
- Democratic politics
- Nondemocratic politics
- The creation and consolidation of democracy
- Democratization
- Coups and consolidation
- Putting the models to work
- The role of the middle class
- Economic structure and democracy
- Globalization and democracy
- Conclusions and the future of democracy.