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Format: 1 online resource (xviii, 510 pages) : , digital, PDF file(s).

ISBN: 1-009-12105-7 , 1-009-12121-9 , 1-009-11522-7

Content: This book explores the deep roots of modern democracy, focusing on geography and long-term patterns of global diffusion. Its geographic argument centers on access to the sea, afforded by natural harbors which enhance the mobility of people, goods, capital, and ideas. The extraordinary connectivity of harbor regions thereby affected economic development, the structure of the military, statebuilding, and openness to the world - and, through these pathways, the development of representative democracy. The authors' second argument focuses on the global diffusion of representative democracy. Beginning around 1500, Europeans started to populate distant places abroad. Where Europeans were numerous they established some form of representative democracy, often with restrictions limiting suffrage to those of European heritage. Where they were in the minority, Europeans were more reticent about popular rule and often actively resisted democratization. Where Europeans were entirely absent, the concept of representative democracy was unfamiliar and its practice undeveloped.

Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Sep 2022). , Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Detailed Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- I Introduction -- 1 Deep Roots -- Harbors -- European Ancestry -- Synthesis -- Extant Work -- Alternate Explanations -- A Brief Survey -- In Search of Distal Causes -- Data -- Statistical Tests -- Qualitative and Quantitative Evidence -- Key Terms -- Democracy -- States -- Periods -- A Roadmap -- 2 Democracy -- Intellectual History -- Definition -- Membership -- Accountability -- A Two-Dimensional Schema -- Origins -- Scattered Accounts from outside Europe -- Evolution -- Measurement -- The Premodern Era -- The Modern Era -- The Study of Democracy -- II Maritime Geography -- 3 Harbors and Democracy -- Economic Development -- Implications for Democracy -- Military Organization -- Implications for Democracy -- Statebuilding -- Implications for Democracy -- Openness -- Implications for Democracy -- By Land or by Sea -- 4 Harbors -- Maritime History -- Ports -- The Premodern Era -- The Modern Era -- Path Dependence -- Natural Harbors -- A Prediction Model -- Natural Harbor Distance -- Alternate Measures -- Units of Analysis -- Other Modes of Transport -- 5 Regional Comparisons -- Europe -- Statebuilding -- Urbanization -- Within-Region Comparisons -- Switzerland -- Parliaments -- North Eurasia -- Water and North Eurasia -- Contrasts -- Middle East and North Africa -- Water and the MENA Region -- Inland MENA -- Coastal MENA -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Inland Africa -- Niger Delta and Yorubaland -- Swahili Coast -- Contrasts -- East Asia -- China -- Korea -- Japan -- Contrasts -- Southeast Asia -- Inland Southeast Asia -- Island Southeast Asia -- South Asia -- Inland South Asia -- Coastal South Asia -- Contrasts -- Conclusions -- 6 Global Analyses -- The Early Modern Era. , Grid-cell Tests -- Varying Grid-cells -- Specification Tests -- Port/Harbor Distance -- Democracy Indices -- Samples -- Impact -- Changes through Time -- Conclusions -- 7 Mechanisms -- Economic Development (Including Urbanization) -- Ports and Cities -- The Modern Era -- State Size -- Diversity -- Democratic Values -- Crossnational Tests -- Mediation Analyses -- Conclusions -- III European Diffusion -- 8 Democracy As a European Club -- European Democracy for Europeans -- Democracy As a Club -- Gaining Entrance to the Club -- Summary, Caveats, and Implications -- Precedents and Caveats -- Hypotheses -- 9 European Ancestry -- Imperialism as a Maritime Enterprise -- Diaspora -- Demography -- Europe -- Alternate Definitions -- A Common Identity -- European-ness -- Counting Europeans -- Demography and Colonialism -- 10 Colonial and Post-colonial Eras -- The British Empire -- The Americas -- The Caribbean -- European-Dominated Settler Societies -- Southern Africa -- India -- East Asia -- The Middle East -- The French Empire -- The Spanish Empire -- Governance in New Spain -- The Portuguese Empire -- Democracy and Oppression -- Statistical Tests -- 11 Global Analyses -- Specification Tests -- Measures of Democracy -- Measures of European Ancestry -- Sub-sample Analyses -- Replications -- Instrumental Variables -- Impact -- Conclusions -- IV Alternate Explanations -- 12 Modalities of Geography -- Climate -- Irrigation -- Agriculture -- Mountains -- Islands -- Tests -- Impact -- Conclusions -- 13 Modalities of European Diffusion -- Colonialism -- Religion -- Language -- All Together Now -- Which Mattered Most? -- Measurement -- Causal Order -- Selection Effects and Proxy Effects -- Conclusions -- 14 Economics, Institutions, Culture -- Agricultural Transitions -- Modernization -- Inequality -- Labor Scarcity -- Marriage and Family -- Feudalism -- Parliaments. , Christianity -- Catholicism -- State Size -- State-Society Relationships -- Ideas -- Diffusion -- Conclusions -- V Conclusions -- 15 A Summary View -- The Evidence Reviewed -- Determinism? -- Against Free Will? -- A Failed Theory? -- Does It Matter? -- 16 Connectedness -- The Changing Relevance of Connectedness -- The Obsolescence of Direct Democracy -- Economic Development -- The Search for Equality -- The Scope of Conflict -- Globalization and Democracy -- From National to International Democracy? -- Appendix A: Variables -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9781009100373

Language: English

URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009115223