Vanhanen's 'Democratization'
In: European political science: EPS, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 436-439
ISSN: 1682-0983
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In: European political science: EPS, Band 4, Heft 4, S. 436-439
ISSN: 1682-0983
In: Issues in the Contemporary Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa, S. 78-104
In: Asian affairs: an American review, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 195-209
ISSN: 1940-1590
Although the Republic of Korea is regarded as a shining example of democracy in East Asia and a secure electoral democracy, its journey toward democratic consolidation is far from complete. This volume explores the complex interplay of factors that have influenced and reshaped Korea's democratic consolidation process
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ISSN: 1469-9982
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In: International studies review, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 157-164
ISSN: 1468-2486
In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 55, Heft 4, S. 517-549
ISSN: 1086-3338
The authors show that economic development increases the probability that a country will undergo a transition to democracy. These results contradict the finding of Przeworski and his associates, that development causes democracy to last but not to come into existence in the first place. By dealing adequately with problems of sample selection and model specification, the authors discover that economic growth does cause nondemocracies to democratize. They show that the effect of economic development on the probability of a transition to democracy in the hundred years between the mid-nineteenth century and World War II was substantial, indeed, even stronger than its effect on democratic stability. They also show that, in more recent decades, some countries that developed but remained dictatorships would, because of their development, be expected to democratize in as few as three years after achieving a per capita income of $12,000 per capita.