Global wealth by region

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Global wealth by region
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Democratization in the world
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Democracy by region
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De jure human rights protection
Landman (2004) Protecting Human Rights A Global
Comparative Study, Washington DC Georgetown
University Press
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De facto human rights protection
Source Landman (2004) Protecting Human Rights A
Global Comparative Study, Washington DC
Georgetown University Press
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De facto human rights protection
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RATIONALIST
Social Action
Choice
INDIVIDUAL
Desires
Beliefs
Norms
Conditions
COLLECTIVE
CULTURALIST
STRUCTURALIST
Source Mark Lichbach (1997) 'Social Theory and
Comparative Politics' in Mark Lichbach and Alan
Zuckerman (eds) Comparative Politics
Rationality, Culture, and Structure, Cambridge
Cambridge University Press, 262.
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Methods of Comparison
High
Comparing many countries
Level of Abstraction
Middle
Comparing few countries
Case-study
Low
One
Few
Many
Scope of Countries
Source Landman (2003) Issues and Methods in
Comparative Politics, London Routledge.
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Modern society

• Predominance of achievement
• Universalistic, specific, and neutral
  orientations and patterns of action
• Nuclear family structure with limited functions
• Complex and highly differentiated occupational
  structure
• High rates of spatial and social mobility
• Secondary economic activity
• Institutionalization of change and self-sustained
  growth
• Highly differentiated political structures
• Legal-rational sources of authority

Traditional society

• Ascriptive, particularistic, diffuse, and
  affective patterns of action
• Extended kinship structure
• Low spatial and social mobility
• Deferential stratification system
• Primary economic activity
• Autarchy of social units
• Undifferentiated political structure
• Elitist and hierarchical sources of power

Source Valenzuela and Valenzuela (1978)
Modernization and Dependency, Comparative
Politics, 535-557
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Democracys Dimensions

• Contestation
• Leaders openly compete for office through regular
  elections
• Acceptance of the legitimacy of the opposition
• The right to challenge incumbents
• Constitutionalism
• Constitution provides legal order to a government
• Structures powers of government executive,
  legislature, judiciary
• Provides procedures for making and breaking
  government
• Provides procedures for making laws and amending
  the constitution itself
• Participation
• Popular sovereignty
• Universal suffrage
• Political and civil rights of citizenship
  guaranteed

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Basic Linear Regression
Democracy 5 2Development Y
? ?? X
Democracy
Development
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Basic Linear Regression
Democracy 5 2Development Error
Y ? ?? X
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Democracy
Development
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Basic Linear Regression
DEMOCRACY -.01 1.53DEVELOPMENT
26 of variation in democracy is explained by
the level of development, while 74 remains
unexplained due to error (?).
Data source Banks (1998) Cross-Polity
Time-Series Archive, Binghamton, NY.
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Rostows Stages of Economic Growth
Preconditions for Take-off Take-off Drive to
maturity Age of high mass consumption (Post-mate
rialism?)
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Modernization Theory

Economic Development
Political Stability
(Democracy)
Revised Modernization Theory
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Political Stability
Economic Development
(Democracy)

Political Institutionalisation
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Functional forms of economic development-democracy
thesis
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Phases of Democratization
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II
III
IV
Authoritarianism
Liberalization
Transition
Consolidation
Time
Transformation
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Elite Actors in Democratic Transition
The Democratic Potential
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