عنوان

Democracy and development /

052105530X

052141685X

9780521055307

9780521416856

b772334

Democracy and development /

[Book]

by Axel Hadenius.

New York :

Cambridge University Press,

1992.

xi, 218 pages ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-213) and index.

Machine derived contents note: Introduction -- Part I. Determining the Level of Democracy: 1. Points of departure -- 2. Political democracy -- 3. An index of democracy -- Part II. Explaining the Level of Democracy: 4. Introduction -- 5. Socio-economic conditions -- 6. Demographic and cultural conditions -- 7. Institutional conditions -- 8. General picture and problems of causality -- Notes.

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"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."--Jacket.

Democracy-- Developing countries.

Démocratie-- Pays en voie de développement.

89.35 democracy.

Democracia.

Democracy-- Developing countries.

Democracy.

Democratie.

Demographie

Demokrati-- Utviklingslandene.

Demokratie

Demokratisierung

Politics and government

Politieke ontwikkeling.

Politikk-- Utviklingslandene.

Developing countries, Politics and government.

Pays en voie de développement, Politique et gouvernement.

Developing countries, Politics and government.

Developing countries.

Entwicklungsländer

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