Democracy and Redistribution

By:

Carles Boix

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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When do countries democratize? What facilitates the survival of authoritarian regimes? What determines the occurrence of revolutions, often leading to left-wing dictatorships, such as the Soviet regime? Although a large literature has developed since Aristotle through contemporary political science to answer these questions, we still lack a convincing understanding of the process of political development. Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions, in which political regimes ultimately hinge on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed up by detailed historical work and extensive statistical analysis that goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, this book explains why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also discusses the early triumph of democracy in both nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America and the failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.

Release date NZ

July 28th, 2003

Author

Carles Boix

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

27 Tables, unspecified; 22 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

282

Series

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

Dimensions

152x229x19

ISBN-13

9780521825603

Product ID

2398839

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