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Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
Sprache/n: | Englisch |
Veröffentlichungsangabe: | Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 416 Seiten) : graph. Darst. |
Anmerkung: | Description based upon print version of record |
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ISBN: | 978-0-511-14004-4 978-0-521-85526-6 |
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Inhalt: | This book systematically explains why some countries are democracies while others are not. Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS -- 1 Paths of Political Development -- 1. Britain -- 2. Argentina -- 3. Singapore -- 4. South Africa -- 5. The Agenda -- 2 Our Argument -- 1. Democracy versus Nondemocracy -- 2. Building Blocks of Our Approach -- 3. Toward Our Basic Story -- 4. Our Theory of Democratization -- 5. Democratic Consolidation -- 6. Determinants of Democracy -- 6.1 Civil Society -- 6.1.1 Democratization -- 6.1.2 Consolidation -- 6.2 Shocks and Crises -- 6.2.1 Democratization -- 6.2.2 Consolidation -- 6.3 Sources of Income and Composition of Wealth -- 6.3.1 Democratization -- 6.3.2 Consolidation -- 6.4 Political Institutions -- 6.4.1 Democratization -- 6.4.2 Consolidation -- 6.5 The Role of Inter-Group Inequality -- 6.5.1 Democratization -- 6.5.2 Consolidation -- 6.6 TheMiddle Class -- 6.6.1 Democratization -- 6.6.2 Consolidation -- 6.7 Globalization -- 6.7.1 Democratization -- 6.7.2 Consolidation -- 7. Political Identities and the Nature of Conflict -- 8. Democracy in a Picture -- 9. Overview of the Book -- 3 What Do We Know about Democracy? -- 1. Measuring Democracy -- 2. Patterns of Democracy -- 3. Democracy, Inequality, and Redistribution -- 4. Crises and Democracy -- 5. Social Unrest and Democratization -- 5.1 Democratizations in Nineteenth-Century Europe -- 5.2 Why in the Nineteenth Century? -- 5.3 The Latin American Experience -- 6. The Literature -- 7. Our Contribution -- PART TWO. MODELING POLITICS -- 4 Democratic Politics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Aggregating Individual Preferences -- 3. Single-Peaked Preferences and the Median Voter Theorem -- 3.1 Single-Peaked Preferences -- 3.2 The Median Voter Theorem -- 3.3 Downsian Party Competition and Policy Convergence -- 4. Our Workhorse Models -- 4.1 TheMedian VoterModel of Redistributive Politics. |
Sekundärausgabe: | Online-Ausg. |
Veröffentlichungsangabe: | [s.l.] : eblib |
Hersteller: | [s.l.] : eblib |
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