• Highly interdisciplinary study of government, integrating economics, political science, sociology, and history
• Real world in orientation, making it not just for students but also policy makers
• Authors are internationally known for their work on this subject
Contents
Part I. Questions and Answers;
Section 1. Paths of Political Development:
1. Britain;
2. Argentina;
3. Singapore;
4. South Africa;
5. The agenda;
Section 2. Our Argument:
6. Democracy versus nondemocracy;
7. Building blocks of our approach;
8. Toward our basic story;
9. Our theory of democratization;
10. Democratic consolidation;
11. Determinants of democracy;
12. Political identities and the nature of conflict;
13. Democracy in a picture;
14. Overview of the book;
Section 3. What Do We Know about Democracy?:
15. Measuring democracy;
16. Patterns of democracy;
17. Democracy, inequality and redistribution;
18. Crises and democracy;
19. Social unrest and democratization;
20. The literature;
21. Our contribution;
Part II. Modelling Politics;
Section 4. Democratic Politics:
22. Introduction;
23. Aggregating individual preferences;
24. Single-peaked preferences and the median voter theorem;
25. Our workhorse models;
26. Democracy and political equality;
27. Conclusion;
Section 5. Nondemocratic Politics:
28. Introduction;
29. Power and constraints in nondemocratic politics;
30. Modeling preferences and constraints in nondemocracies;
31. Commitment problems;
32. A simple game of promises;
33. A dynamic model;
34. Incentive-compatible promises;
35. Conclusion;
Part III. The Creation and Consolidation of Democracy;
Section 6. Democratization:
36. Introduction;
37. The role of political institutions;
38. Preferences over political institutions;
39. Political power and institutions;
40. A static model of democratization;
41. Democratization or repression?;
42. A dynamic model of democratization;
43. Subgame perfect equilibria;
44. Alternative political identities;
45. Targeted transfers;
46. Power of the elites in democracy;
47. Ideological preferences over regimes;
48. Democratization in a picture;
49. Equilibrium revolutions;
50. Conclusion;
Section 7. Coups and Consolidation:
51. Introduction;
52. Incentives for coups;
53. A static model of coups;
54. A dynamic model of the creation and consolidation of democracy;
55. Alternative political identities;
56. Targeted transfers;
57. Power in democracy and coups;
58. Consolidation in a picture;
59. Defensive coups;
60. Conclusion;
Part IV. Putting the Models to Work;
Section 8. The Role of the Middle Class:
61. Introduction;
62. The three-class model;
63. Emergence of partial democracy;
64. From partial to full democracy;
65. Repression: the middle class as a buffer;
66. Repression: soft-liners versus hard-liners;
67. The role of the middle class in consolidating democracy;
68. Conclusion;
Section 9. Economic Structure and Democracy:
69. Introduction;
70. Economic structure and income distribution;
71. Political conflict;
72. Capital, land and the transition to democracy;
73. Costs of coup on capital and land;
74. Capital, land and the burden of democracy;
75. Conflict between landowners and industrialists;
76. Industrialists, landowners and democracy in practice;
77. Economic institutions;
78. Human capital;
79. Conjectures about political development;
80. Conclusion;
Section 10. Globalization and Democracy:
81. Introduction;
82. A model of an open economy;
83. Political conflict - democratic consolidation;
84. Political conflict - transition to democracy;
85. Financial integration;
86. Increased political integration;
87. Alternative assumptions about the nature of international trade;
88. Conclusion;
Part V. Conclusions and the Future of Democracy;
Section 11. Conclusions and the Future of Democracy:
89. Paths of political development revisited;
90. Extensions and areas for future research;
91. The future of democracy;
Part VI. Appendix; Section 12. Appendix to Chapter 4: The Distribution of Power in Democracy:
92. Introduction;
93. Probabilistic voting models;
94. Lobbying;
95. Partisan politics and political capture;
Bibliography;
Index.