TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ansell,Ben W.
AU  - Samuels,David
TI  - Inequality and democratization: an elite-competition approach 
T2  - Cambridge studies in comparative politics
SN  - 9780511843686 (ebook)
AV  - JC423 .A578 2014
U1  - 321.8 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Economic aspects
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Land tenure
KW  - Income distribution
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015); 1. Introduction -- 2. Inequality, development, and distribution -- 3. Actors and interests; 4. An elite-competition model of democratization -- 5. Assessing the relationship between inequality and democratization -- 6. Inequality and democratization : empirical extensions -- 7. Democracy, inequality, and public spending : reassessing the evidence -- 8. Democracy, redistribution, and preferences -- 9. Conclusion
N2  - Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal - shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite interests are low
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511843686
ER  -