Economic origins of dictatorship and democracy /

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...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron (Author), Robinson, James A., 1960- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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