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Democracy and Redistribution

Boix, Carles·2003·Cambridge University Press eBooks
DOI 10.1017/cbo9780511804960
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When do countries democratize? What facilitates the survival of authoritarian regimes? What determines the occurrence of revolutions, often leading to left-wing dictatorships, such as the Soviet regime? Although a large literature has developed since Aristotle through contemporary political science to answer these questions, we still lack a convincing understanding of the process of political development. Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions, in which political regimes ultimately hinge on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed up by detailed historical work and extensive statistical analysis that goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, this 2003 book explains why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also discusses the early triumph of democracy in both nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America and the failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.

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Authors
Boix, C.
Affiliations
University of Chicago (US)
Corresponding author
Boix, Carles
ORCID
Boix, Carles
Venue
Cambridge University Press eBooks
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Published
2003-07-21
DOI
10.1017/cbo9780511804960
OpenAlex
W4298377943
Cited by
2,211
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Citations by year
2026: 72 · 2025: 161 · 2024: 65 · 2023: 142 · 2022: 171 · 2021: 104 · 2020: 278 · 2019: 265 · 2018: 148 · 2017: 102 · 2016: 90 · 2015: 86 · 2014: 82 · 2013: 71 · 2012: 84
FWCI
13.78
Type
book
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified, 4217 d)
Locations
Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Political Conflict and Governance
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Keywords
democratization, political transition, authoritarian regime survival, revolution, redistribution, economic assets, balance of power, social groups, classical Athens, political development, game theory

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