Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy

by Daron Acemoglu

  7. The Role of the Middle Class in Consolidating Democracy

  8. Conclusion

  Chapter 9 - Economic Structure and Democracy

  1. Introduction

  2. Economic Structure and Income Distribution

  3. Political Conflict

  4. Capital, Land, and the Transition to Democracy

  5. Costs of Coup on Capital and Land

  6. Capital, Land, and the Burden of Democracy

  7. Conflict between Landowners and Industrialists

  8. Industrialists, Landowners, and Democracy in Practice

  9. Economic Institutions

  10. Human Capital

  11. Conjectures about Political Development

  12. Conclusion

  Chapter 10 - Globalization and Democracy

  1. Introduction

  2. A Model of an Open Economy

  3. Political Conflict - Democratic Consolidation

  4. Political Conflict - Transition to Democracy

  5. Financial Integration

  6. Increased Political Integration

  7. Alternative Assumptions about the Nature of International Trade

  8. Conclusion

  PART FIVE. - CONCLUSIONS AND THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY

  Chapter 11 - Conclusions and the Future of Democracy

  1. Paths of Political Development Revisited

  2. Extensions and Areas for Future Research

  3. The Future of Democracy

  PART SIX. - APPENDIX

  12 Appendix to Chapter 4: The Distribution of Power in Democracy

  1. Introduction

  2. Probabilistic Voting Models

  3. Lobbying

  4. Partisan Politics and Political Capture

  Bibliography

  Index