Human development and the "explosion" of democracy: variations of regime change across 60 societies

Research output: Working paperWorking papers

Authors

Recently scholars identified a global explosionʺ of democracy as a sharply distinctive period within Huntington’s Third Wave of democratization. So far the role of modernization has not been analyzed with particular regard to this outstanding phase of democratization. Given that modernization has economic as well as cultural aspects, we test two prominent theses. First, we test Przeworski/Limongi’s claim that transitions to democracy do not derive from economic modernization. Using a graded measure of regime change, we present evidence to the contrary. Second, we test Inglehart’s finding that modern mass attitudes play a negligable role in promoting regime change to democracy. To the contrary again, we show that one aspect of cultural modernization, mass-level liberty aspirations, has a positive impact on democratic change even stronger than economic modernization. Third, we unfold the concept of Human Development to establish a more general argument on the causal mechanism in the modernization-democratization nexus. Our data cover 60 societies of the World Values Surveys, representing nearly 50 per cent of all regime changes in the world since 1972.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherWZB - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Number of pages32
Publication statusPublished - 06.2001
Externally publishedYes

    Research areas

  • Politics - Modernisierung, Herrschaft, Änderung, Demokratisierung

Documents

Links

Recently viewed

Publications

  1. Learning the hard way
  2. Measurement estimation in primary school
  3. Paradoxe Kritik
  4. European and national law in history and future
  5. Whistle-Blowing heißt nicht: „verpfeifen“
  6. Crowdsourcing
  7. Does syndication with local venture capitalists moderate the effects of geographical and institutional distances?
  8. Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research
  9. Trace Analysis of the Antineoplastics Ifosfamide and Cyclophosphamide in Sewage Water by Two-Step Solid-Phase Extraction and Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
  10. The Break In and With History
  11. More than the sum of its parts? Synergy and picturebook translation
  12. Editorial overview
  13. Does fragmentation contribute to the forest crisis in Germany?
  14. Different ways lead to ambidexterity
  15. Sufficiency as a "Strategy of the Enough": Curbing ecological crises and injustices.
  16. Web-based occupational stress prevention in German micro- and small-sized enterprises – process evaluation results of an implementation study
  17. I'm lonely, can't you tell?
  18. Dry high speed milling as a new machining technology of ceramics for biomedical and other applications
  19. To the unknown reader: Constructing absent readership in the eighteenth-century novel: Fielding, Sterne and Richardson
  20. Patterns of entrepreneurial career development
  21. Evidence-based policy-making?
  22. Does managed care reduce health care expenditure? Evidence from spatial panel data
  23. Polarisierung der Einkommen von Selbständigen?
  24. Lean Social Media Communication Strategies for SMEs
  25. Elevator as a mediating technology of organization
  26. Carbon fluxes within tree-crop-grass agroforestry system
  27. Reversing a tree regeneration crisis in an endangered ecoregion
  28. Efficient Production of Nanoparticle Reinforced Magnesium Matrix Composites by High-Shear Stir Casting and Hot Extrusion
  29. The Rhythm Method
  30. Dialogue on Writing
  31. Molnar, Paul D.: Thomas F. Torrance – Theologian of the Trinity. Farnham: Ashgate 2009
  32. A Cultural Task Analysis of Implicit Independence
  33. Performance Saga: Interview 04
  34. Laser in situ keratomileusis
  35. Which attributes of audit committees are most beneficial for European companies?
  36. Anti-Fascist Exile, Political Print Media, and the Variable Tactics of the Communists in Mexico (1939–1946)
  37. To assess progress in the social sciences, we should study knowledge cumulation, not disruptiveness
  38. Fragmented Landscape, Fragmented Knowledge
  39. Corrosion behaviour of magnesium alloys with RE additions in sodium chloride solutions
  40. Self-determined or non-self-determined? Exploring consumer motivation for sustainable food choices
  41. Experimental and numerical investigation of laser beam-welded Al-Cu-Li joints using micro-mechanical characteristics
  42. The Future of Scattered Trees in Agricultural Landscapes
  43. Long-term effects of historical heathland farming on soil properties of forest ecosystems