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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      October 2009
      September 1992
      ISBN:
      9780511549731
      9780521416856
      9780521055307
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549731
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.482kg, 232 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.359kg, 232 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Economics, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Economic Development and Growth
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    Economics, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Economic Development and Growth
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    This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses various interpretations of the meaning of political democracy, and emerges with a specification of its essential elements which includes such elements as the holding of elections to central decision-making organs, and the maintenance of certain fundamental political liberties. Theories concerning the requisites of democracy are then examined in order to explain the manifest differences in the level of democracy among the states of the Third World. The author employs statistical techniques including regression analysis to test theories related to socio-economic conditions, demographic and cultural factors, and institutional arrangements. This book thus provides a wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence.

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