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Inequality and Democratization
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521168793
Veröffentl:
2015
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
04.11.2015
Seiten:
254
Autor:
Ben W. Ansell
Gewicht:
374 g
Format:
229x152x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ben W. Ansell is Professor of Comparative Democratic Institutions at Nuffield College, Oxford, and co-editor of Comparative Political Studies. His work on education, democracy, and housing markets has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Comparative Political Studies, World Politics, and International Organization. His book From the Ballot to the Blackboard (Cambridge, 2010) was awarded the 2011 William Riker Prize by the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association.
This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale.
1. Introduction; 2. Inequality, development, and distribution; 3. Actors and interests; 4. An elite-competition model of democratization; 5. Assessing the relationship between inequality and democratization; 6. Inequality and democratization: empirical extensions; 7. Democracy, inequality, and public spending: reassessing the evidence; 8. Democracy, redistribution, and preferences; 9. Conclusion.