This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy.
Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate …

The contributors to this volume address questions central to the development and survival of
democratic rule. Brought together under the auspices of a Nobel Symposium on democracy …

This paper develops a taxonomy of political regimes that distinguishes between three sets of
rights—property rights, political rights and civil rights. The truly distinctive nature of liberal …

Capitalism and democracy follow different logics. During the first postwar decades, tensions
between the two were moderated through the sociopolitical embedding of capitalism by an …

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 …

Economic markets are a necessary, though not sufficient, condition for democracy, but is
democracy a requirement for efficient economic markets? The first relationship is widely …

Is economic development conducive to political democracy? Does democracy foster or
hinder material welfare? These two questions are examined by looking at the experiences of …

In the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to
democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe …

Remarkably, the current demise of communism and the movement toward democracy have
come not in the aftermath of destructive war but in an unprecedented half-century of global …

Based on a new data set of democratizations occurring between 1960 and 2004, this paper
explores the reasons for reversals in young democracies. Adverse initial conditions …