Democratization : a comparative analysis of 170 countries

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 9
Illustrations......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 15
Abbreviations......Page 17
Introduction......Page 19
1 Debate on the causes of democratization......Page 25
2 Resource distribution theory of democratization......Page 43
3 Measures of democracy......Page 66
4 Explanatory variables......Page 97
5 A review of democratization in 1850–1998......Page 122
6 Correlation analysis......Page 139
7 Regression analysis......Page 151
8 Analysis of single countries......Page 165
9 Conclusions......Page 201
Appendix 1 Data on the measures of democracy for 1999–2001 in 170 countries......Page 208
Appendix 2 Data on adult literacy and students in universities per 100,000 inhabitants in 170 countries......Page 251
Appendix 3 The percentage of Family Farms of the total area of agricultural holdings in 170 countries, 1960–1995, and the percentage of the agricultural population in 1999......Page 257
Appendix 4 The estimated degree of decentralization of mainly non-agricultural economic power resources (DD) in 170 countries, 1995–1999......Page 275
Appendix 5 Data on GNP 1998 and GDP per capita (PPP US$) 1998 in 170 countries......Page 283
References......Page 288
Index......Page 307