How development leads to democracy: what we know about modernization

Ronald Inglehart; Christian Peter Welzel

How development leads to democracy: what we know about modernization

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How development leads to democracy: what we know about modernization. / Inglehart, Ronald; Welzel, Christian Peter.
In: Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88, No. 2, 04.2009, p. 33-48.

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abstract = "Democratic institutions tend to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist. But economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction and make democracy increasingly likely.",

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