Inequality and Democratization: An Elite-Competition Approach (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics) - Hardcover

Ansell, Ben W.; Samuels, David J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 110700036X ISBN 13: 9781107000360

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal - shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite interests are low.

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Ben W. Ansell is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford, and co-editor of Comparative Political Studies. His work on education, democracy, and housing markets has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, and International Organization. His book From the Ballot to the Blackboard (Cambridge, 2010) was awarded the 2011 William Riker Prize by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association.

David J. Samuels is Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. He is the coauthor of Presidents, Parties, and Prime Ministers (Cambridge, 2010); the author of Ambition, Federalism, and Legislative Politics in Brazil (Cambridge, 2003); and the co-editor of Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America (2004). His work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, and the British Journal of Political Science. He currently serves as co-editor of Comparative Political Studies.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 110700036X
• ISBN 13: 9781107000360
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 254
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar