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Democracy and Development - Hardcover

Axel Hadenius

 
9780521416856: Democracy and Development
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 052141685X ISBN 13: 9780521416856
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1992

Synopsis

This book is a wide-ranging study of the meaning of democracy and the factors which determine its level.

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From the Back Cover

This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from all 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses various interpretations of the meaning of political democracy, and emerges with a specification of its essential principles which includes such elements as the holding of elections to central decision-making organs, and the maintenance of certain fundamental political liberties. Theories concerning the requisites of democratic government are then examined in order to explain the manifest differences in the level of democracy among the states of the Third World. The author employs statistical techniques including regression analysis to test theories related to socio-economic conditions, demographic and cultural factors, and institutional arrangements. This book thus provides a uniquely wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
052141685X
ISBN 13 
9780521416856
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
230