Close this alert
Democracy and Redistribution (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Current price:
$31.99
This product is not returnable.
Publication Date: July 21st, 2003
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:
9780521532679
Pages:
284
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days
Description
Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions. It is one in which political regimes ultimately depend on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed by detailed historical research and extensive statistical analysis from the mid-nineteenth century, the study reveals why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also covers the early triumph of democracy in nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America as well as its failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.
Other Books in Series
Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Inside Parties: How Party Rules Shape Membership and Responsiveness (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Hardcover
New Release
Inequality and Political Cleavage in Africa: Regionalism by Design (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Hardcover
Varieties of Liberalization and the New Politics of Social Solidarity (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
The Politics of Authoritarian Rule (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
The American Political Economy: Politics, Markets, and Power (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of South Africa, the United States, and Brazil (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
The Evolution of Modern States: Sweden, Japan, and the United States (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Understanding Ethnic Violence: Fear, Hatred, and Resentment in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
State in Society: Studying How States and Societies Transform and Constitute One Another (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback
Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Paperback