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 depends on several factors.

Year

2005

Language

English

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Editions

1

Pages

434

ISBN

9780521855266

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