
Democracy and Development
Axel Hadenius(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 17. September 1992
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-521-41685-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from 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 elements 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 democracy 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 wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
31 Tables, unspecified; 11 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
533 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-41685-6 (9780521416856)
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Content
List of tables and figure; Acknowledgements; 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; Appendices; Notes; Bibliography; Index.