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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      February 2015
      July 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511804960
      9780521825603
      9780521532679
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511804960
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 282 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.378kg, 284 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, Politics and International Relations, Comparative Politics
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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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.

    Awards

    Winner of the Mattei Dogan Award of the Society for Comparative Research

    Winner of the William H. Riker Award of the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association

    Reviews

    'The book will surely become a reference point in comparative political studies'.

    Source: Political Studies Review

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