Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

Acemoglu, Daron (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), James A. (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Robinson

Cambridge University Press, 2005

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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.

ISBN-13
9780521855266
ISBN-10
0521855268
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2005
Publication date
2005-12-19
Pages
434
Dimensions
241x165x29
Weight
828