Democracy and Redistribution

Democracy and Redistribution
ISBN-10
0521532671
ISBN-13
9780521532679
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2003-07-21
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Carles Boix

Description

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 book explains, among many other things, 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.

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