How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization

Abstract

Democratic institutions cannot be set up easily, anywhere, at any time; they are likely to emerge only when certain social and cultural conditions exist. But economic development and modernization push those conditions in the right direction by creating a self-reinforcing process that brings mass participation to politics and thus makes democracy increasingly likely.

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Ronald Inglehart, Christian Welzel (2009). How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization. SSRN Electronic Journal.

@article{ronald2009how,
  title  = {How Development Leads to Democracy: What We Know About Modernization},
  author = {Inglehart, Ronald and Welzel, Christian},
  year   = {2009},
  journal = {SSRN Electronic Journal}
}