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Hardcover | 16 November 1992

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This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses various interpretations of the meaning of political democracy, and emerges with a specification of its essential elements which includes such elements as the holding of elections to central decision-making organs, and the maintenance of certain fundamental political liberties. Theories concerning the requisites of democracy are then examined in order to explain the manifest differences in the level of democracy among the states of the Third World. The author employs statistical techniques including regression analysis to test theories related to socio-economic conditions, demographic and cultural factors, and institutional arrangements. This book thus provides a wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence.

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List of tables and figure
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Determining the Level of Democracy	p. 3
Points of departure	p. 5
Political democracy	p. 9
Decision Rules	p. 10
The Significance of Government by the People	p. 12
A Note on the Ideal Alternative	p. 23
Rights and Their Protection	p. 28
Another Kind of Democracy?	p. 32
Basic and Optimal Criteria	p. 35
An index of democracy	p. 36
Elections	p. 39
Political Freedoms	p. 51
Explaining the Level of Democracy	p. 73
Introduction	p. 75
Socio-economic conditions	p. 77
Modernization	p. 77
Dependency	p. 91
Distribution of Income and Property	p. 98
Economic System	p. 103
Demographic and cultural conditions	p. 112
Cleavages	p. 112
Religion	p. 118
Size	p. 122
Institutional conditions	p. 128
Colonial Background	p. 128
The Public Sector	p. 133
The Military	p. 138
General picture and problems of causality	p. 143
Appendices	p. 159
Notes	p. 169
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 214
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