Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy Paperback - Softcover

Acemoglu, Daron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521671426 ISBN 13: 9780521671422

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

This book is the first to use modern social science methodology systematically to explain why some countries are democracies while others are not. Why does democracy sometimes persist and consolidate while other times it collapses? The treatment shows that whether or not a society becomes democratic depends on several factors.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Daron Acemoglu is Charles P. Kindleberger Professor of Applied Economics at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Program on Institutions, Organizations, and Growth. He received the 2005 John Bates Clark Medal awarded by the American Economic Association to the best economist working in the United States under age 40. He is the author of the textbook Introduction to Modern Economic Growth and coeditor of Econometrica and NBER Macroannual.

James A. Robinson is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is a Faculty Associate at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and is a member of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research's Program on Institutions, Organizations, and Growth. He is coeditor with Jared Diamond of Natural Experiments in History (2009).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521671426
• ISBN 13: 9780521671422
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 434
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar